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Nadine Lee

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Nadine Lee
Wondering how to celebrate Burns Night in your neck of the woods? Here's a guide to events happening around the world this Saturday
How Burns Suppers are celebrated around the world
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With Robert Burns' most famous ditty Auld Lang Syne paying tribute to old and absent friends, and given the historically far-flung Scottish diaspora, it's hardly surprising that expat Scots and those ...
Hal Hardin
Nadine, I noticed that you used the phrase "your neck of the woods" is that a phrase common in Scotland? I found it interesting because we use it all the time in the Southern part of the United States so I am wondering if that is due to all of the Scots and Scots Irish influence in our area of the c...
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Nadine Lee
Hi Hal, I actually wondered the origin of that phrase when I wrote that post. I think it's generally just a fairly common English language phrase? As we quite often use it at home in New Zealand as well.
Nadine Lee
Here's a little bit more info I found:
"Neck" had been used in English since around 1555 to describe a narrow strip of land, usually surrounded by water, based on its resemblance to the neck of an animal. But the Americans were the first to apply "neck" to a narrow stand of woods or, more importantl...
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