Josie:
> Is "Whaur's yir Willie" a scots equivalent of 'show us yer
> tits luv'?
Well, it was Edinburgh in the eighteenth century, so I wouldn't be that
surprised.
But, oddly (or maybe not) it does seem as if the ladies then there were
fairly articulate. Not desperately long before the Norval Incident, Jenny
Geddes stood up in the midst of the congregation of Edinburgh Cathedral and
uttered words to the effect of:
"A'm black affronted tae hae ma lugs dinned by such papist nonsence."
The good Edinburgh burgess was objecting to the imposition of the Anglican
order of service on a decent Scots Presbyterian kirk.
Articulate lassies in them days, but.
Robin
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