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Thy line, that have struggled for freedom

" with Bruce,

"Shall heroes and patriots ever produce:

"So thine be the laurel, and mine be the bay; "The field thou haft won, by yon bright god " of day !"

GLOSSARY.

GLOSSARY.

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GLOSSARY.

THE ch and gh have always the guttural found. The found of the English diphthong oo, is commonly spelled ou. The French u, a found which often occurs in the Scottish language, is marked oo, or ui. The a in genuine Scottish words, except when forming a diphthong, or followed by an e mute after a fingle confonant, founds generally like the broad English a in wall. The Scottish diphthong ae, always, and ea, very often, found like the French e mafculine. The Scottish diphthong ey, founds like the Latin ei.

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