Ailice`s Aventurs in Wunnerland. Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland in Southeast Central Scots

Lewis Carroll is a pen-name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wis the makar& 39;s richt name an he wis lecturer in Mathematics in Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson started the story on 4 July 1862, whan he teuk a turn in a rowin boat aboot the river Thames in Oxford thegither wi the Reverend Robinson Duckworth, wi Ailice Liddell (ten year auld), the dauchter o the Dean o Christ Church, an wi her twa sisters, Lorina (thirteen year auld), and Edith (aicht year auld). The poem at the start o the beuk narrates that the three lassies wis wantin a story aff o Dodgson an, tho no juist eident at first, he startit tae tell the first mak o the story tae them. Many a reference, hauf-scoukit, is made tae the five o them ootthrou the text o the beuk itsel, that wis syne an on published in 1865. This beuk sets oot the first translation o& 34;Ailice& 39;s Aventurs in Wunnerland& 34; intae Scots (that we aince caa& 39;d& 34;Inglis& 34;). This leid haes cam doun fae Auld Northumbrian, the Auld English that wis spoken fae the Humber tae the Lothians. It& 39;s a near relation o Staunart English, but there& 39;s many a differ in baith grammar an vocabulary. The translator haes uised tradeetional spellins the likes o wis set doun bi Burns, Scott, Slater an many ither, tho wantin the& 34;apologetic apostrophes& 34; ye aft see in thae beuks. This is gaes alang wi maist writins in Scots fae the aichteenth century on, an reads fine tae modren Scots spaekers bred up tae sic tradeetions. -- Lewis Carroll is a ...