We Hae Na the Doric
| HE 3YL Sunday literary reading this week was from a collection of Scottish tales by Ian Maclaren, entitled "Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush," and the path was beset by thorns. The speaker, William McCulloch, read the story, which was of a straightforward, sentimental, ingle-nook kind, with great gusto
and vividness; he also read it with meticulous and enthusiastic precision in adhering to the dialect, and the result was that this commentator had to crouch over the wireless with his ears vibrating, and even so missed large amounts of the excellent story. Mr. McCulloch rushed on through bush, through briar, with a plentiful besprinkling of strange glottal stops and a weird vocabulary. There was a charitable person called (apparently) Drumshoof whose behaviour had to be deduced from circumstantial detail. But it was a noble noise, and reminded one what a pity it was that Shakespeare knew no Scots (singular) and what the Porter or the Witches might have been, if he had.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 309, 25 May 1945, Page 9
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166We Hae Na the Doric New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 309, 25 May 1945, Page 9
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