BROAD SCOTS
BROAD SCOTS, also Broad Scotch, Braid Scots. Traditional terms for SCOTS or for its more distinctive dialects. Unlike many other expressions involving broad, the terms are generally neutral or positive: ‘In plain braid Scots hold forth a plain braid story’ ( Robert Burns, Brigs of Ayr, 1787). See BROAD.
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Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland
Dumfries, Scotland
Scottish poet
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