ai6 HINTS TO THE LEARiVED, &EC. JuDC.I 5, 



abundant materials already printed by Ruddiman and 



others. 



A good hiftory of the revival of literature in 

 Sco'lind in the prefent century, beginning with Lord 

 Kaimes, would be a very faleable and interefting work, 

 if executed by a maftcily hand. 



L. 



"To the Editor of the Bee. 

 Sir, 



As, like many other Scotchmen, I have a partiality 

 for my native country, and am an admirer of the Doric 

 nialecl, if v/e may fo call that broad and open manner 

 in which we pronounce the Englilh language, I was 

 much pleafed with the firlt article in your fixth num- 

 ber, relative to Scottilh Songs. The ingenious writer 

 of that article feems to hint, that of faid dialedt, there 

 was a, court and a city or country mode *. I can ta- 

 fily conceive, that there might be a propriety in the 

 mode of expreffion ufed by u>en of learning and polite- 

 nefs, far difierent from that of the unlettered vulgar. 

 I alfo imagine that vulgarifms ufed by fome of our 

 writers, have tended to bring our dialeft into difre- 

 pute: But if the gentleman would be io obliging as fa- 

 vour us with a fpeciraen of elegant Scotch, fuch as he 

 knows to have been in ufe at the time of the union, 

 1 am perftiaded It will be agreeable to many others of 

 your readers, as well as to J. C E. 



* It might perhaps be Tvorth inquiry, how it happens that both in 

 London ard Edinburgh the language of the lower clafs of people is in- 

 ferior to that of fome of the county towns : Alfo, how it fhould happen 

 that the vulgar in London and Murraylhire, though fo diilant, ihould 

 agree in converting the V into a IV, and vice iiofa. • ■ 



