He’s Shuggie Bairn.. in oor Scots tongue
SHUGGIE Bain, Outlander and Dracula have had their first lines translated into Scots.
Backed by VisitScotland, Braw Beginnings, will also feature 1984 by George Orwell and JM Barrie’s Peter Pan.
JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Val McDermid’s Fever of the Bone are included.
Scots is claimed to have 1.5million speakers and to be Scotland’s most spoken indigenous language.
Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain starts: “The day was flat. That morning his mind had abandoned him and left his body wandering down below.”
In Scots it will now read: “The dey wis dreich. Thon morn, his mind had gaed aff an lea’d his body haikin doon ablow.”