The first in Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair trilogy, this is the great Scottish novel, told in a lilting, lyrical tongue as beautiful as the land it describes.

这本书是格拉西克 ·吉本《苏格兰的书》三部曲中的第一本，是伟大的苏格兰小说，它的语言音乐般美妙、抒情，就像它描述的这片土地一样的美丽。

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Scots die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.

每年有三名苏格兰人因以测试9v电蕊会否在他们舌头上生效而死。

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But in the 18th century, after political union with England, the Scots did their best to stamp out their own tongue believing that it was coarse low-class stuff in comparison with the finer words being spoken by London's elite.

ECONOMIST: Scots English