A Midge in Your Hand Is Worth Two Up Your Kilt: Modern Scottish Proverbs
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction, Other | 13 March 2012
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The Scottish language is rich in proverbs, sayings, maxims and wise aphorisms. This great little book thrusts these expressions into the 21st century providing millennia of wisdom in a practical modern format. It covers everything from bagpipes to whisky with a few mentions of our dear neighbours, the Sassenachs, thrown in.
This little book celebrates everything that is finest about the 'Lion in the North'. It is packed with hundreds of examples of Scottish wit and wisdom, it praises the country of tartan and tatties, Burns Nicht and bagpipes, Sir William Wallace and Robert Louis Stevenson.
The 'land of the mountain and the floor', of tartan and tatties, Burns Nicht and bagpipes, is also the land that has spawned writers and poets, statesmen and philosophers, commentators and wits as diverse as William MacGonagall and Hugh MacDiarmid, Sir Walter Scott and Billy Connolly, Arthur Balfour and Muriel Gray, Sir William Wallace...