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Burns songs

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The article says

all the songs of Robert Burns, some being folk songs, some Burns's own compositions,

As he is described as a poet but not a singer, this could easily mean

all the songs of Robert Burns -- those he composed, and his poems for which folk singers set tunes --

but research is needed to support any coherent interpretation of the existing language.
--Jerzyt 14:08, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Brogue

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She has a beautiful, strong, Sco'ish brogue. She's said (at least at the Fox Hollow Folk Festival, and perhaps more than once -- Prairie Home Companion?) that many non-Scots (esp Yanks?) assume her comprehension of standard English is limited (which is not all the case) and consequently speak to her with exaggerated slowness and volume; she says, with parodic intent, that she's got an accent, but that doesn't make her either deaf nor stupid. Perhaps the brogue, if not the patter can be documented.
--Jerzyt 14:08, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Probably especially Americans. A friend of mine from (an English-speaking part of) County Donegal went to graduate school in the U.S. and reports that people there sometimes complimented him on how well he spoke English. +Angr 15:22, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hammered dulcimer

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hammer dulcimer in the first paragraph should be corrected to read hammered dulcimer.

 Done, thanks. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 06:31, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]