They took nae pains their speech to balance, Or rules to gie; But spak their thoughts in plain, braid lallans, Like you or me.
He'll spier; an' I, his mou to steik: "No bein' fit to write in Greek, I wrote in Lallan, Dear to my heart as the peat reek, Auld as Tantallon.
A Likkle wee poom i'th' Aulde Teashoppe Pidgin Brogue, Lallands or Butter-Scotch (Wi' apooligees to MockDiarmid).
[9] In a footnote explaining the poem, Campbell scholar Joseph Pearce wrote, "MacDiarmid championed the use of Scots... in poetry, often employing traditional or regional parochialisms in artificial or dubious contexts.
"[10] Sydney Goodsir Smith, however, defended the literary use of the idiom in his Epistle to John Guthrie: Lallans is the name of the magazine of the Scots Language Society.