Scotland’s beloved son and national bard Robert Burns has done more than any other poet to export the 18th-century Scots language around the world, through the new year classic Auld Lang Syne and his other famous works.
His lyrics, such as “we twa hae run about the braes/and pou’d the gowans fine”, may be incomprehensible to many, but the fame and influence of a man annually celebrated on 25 January has endured over more than two centuries.
