This Tongue of Mine
My Tongue has been through a lot
stuttering for the whole of my years
with a Scottish dialect as well
which is rather speedy full of fears
The quickness of my words so unclear
makes others find it hard to grasp
needing often to repeat myself
Scots and stutter no easy task
Having been brought up in Ayrshire
in the Robert Burns home countryside
where the accent is extremely broad
such a variety of tongue's to confide
Many a word spoken in Ayrshire's tone
to 'ken' is to know, 'whit' means what
'hung' is to hang, 'yon' means there
just a few original words to bat!
( I have written this about my Mother Tongue in a few poetic words to describe all that it can involve.)
Copyright © Gordon Mcconnell | Year Posted 2019
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