North of the Border
MONG the many discussion panels I have listenéd to from time to time "How Differént ate the Scots?" ranks high. Not orily were the fiieitibers of the panél well informed, but they delivered themselves with a tihimum of "ers" and "well-er-I-think’s." So far ds an actual definition of the Scot was concerned, what emerged was problematical and even moré so ag summéd up by Wynford Vaughan Thomas, who set the neat contradictions sidé by sidé, e.g:, the "hard-headedness of thé Scot" and hié love of poetry. The discttssioh raised mafiy interesting sidelights: the fact that while the Highlander is thought to be poetic, the border is the country of ballads; that while the cultivation of Gaelic may seem pardéchial, the English who léarn only one language and expect everybody to speak it are more in érror; and the fact that more Gaelic is spvkén in Canada thah in Scotland. In a word it was the kind of panel one léearris much from, arid riot simiply about Scotland. And as a friend remarked, thinking of the temperamental incompatibility between the two racés; "It was a touch of genius to put a Wélshman ih th® chair."
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 10
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199North of the Border New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 10
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