by Billy Kay
Part 8: The Future Oors?
Back in my home town in Ayrshire a few years ago a local electrician came up to me in the pub and recounted for me an incident that had happenned the day before… “It wes gey nearhaun fower o clock, Billy, sae I says, “Richt boys, redd up and gaither aw yer graith thegither, its lowsin time”. Just then a bit came on the wireless aboot the daith o Scots an the expert lamented the fact that ‘once common words like “graith” and “redd” were no longer in currency.’ Me an the boys juist luiked at wan anither an speired whit kinna planet we wes leivin on!”