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  1. Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] ·

    Ellisland, 1791

    Dear Sir:

    Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution; thou marriage-maker between vowels and consonants, on the Gretna-green of caprice…

    —Robert Burns, Letter to a critic
    via @lettersofnote

    news.lettersofnote.com/p/thou-

    #Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #18thcentury #LettersofNote #correspondence #letters #critics #insults

    #insults #critics #letters #correspondence #lettersofnote #18thcentury
  2. cheesemergency @[email protected] ·

    happy burns night! eating rumbledethumps made by @zaron5551 and watching alfresco with RABBIE COLTRANE #burnsnight #rumbledethumps #food #RobbieColtrane

    #burnsnight #rumbledethumps #food #robbiecoltrane
  3. Scottish Lass @[email protected] ·

    If you're looking for Burns stuff on the telly.
    8:30 ,BBC Scotland, Ferguson - Burns' Forgotten Hero

    My Top Tip
    10pm BBC Four, Angelou on Burns
    #MayaAngelou was a *huge* Burns fan, her love is infectious ❤️

    10:50pm BBC Four Beyond Burns with #JackieKay
    #RobertBurns #BurnsNight

    #burnsnight #robertburns #mayaangelou #jackiekay