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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-

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