Previous years have involved me working at The Edinburgh University Jewish Society's annual Rabbi Burns Ball* and getting together with groups of friends of various sizes. This year was just a quiet one in the flat with my good lady, however. We did make the food a little fancy, however:
Picture stolen from previously mentioned good lady's blog.
Now if you'll excuse me I've just remembered that I'm also supposed to have a whisky.
* Boom boom!
That would be "bard", not baird...
ReplyDeleteI've always seen baird. This website agrees: http://www.burnspoetry.com/
ReplyDeleteWell, I would disagree with them, and I think there is some evidence to suggest they're making it up. For example:
ReplyDelete- A google search for "the baird" produces nothing relevant. The closest to Scotland it comes is John Logie Baird, but he's not much famous for his poetry.
- A google search for "the bard" produces William Shakespeare first and Rabbie Burns second. Which is what you'd expect. (Third entry is World of Warcraft. WTF?)
- Wikipedia calls him the Bard. Though curiously the Scots version calls him neither: . Just Makar, though the entry for Makar describes it as "a poet or bard".
- Scots tends to pronounce an "ai" sound where English would put an "aw"/"oh", as in laird, mair, flair; but doesn't tend to differ on "a" sounds.
I've never seen it spelled that way before...