Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Ellisland, 1791</p><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution…</p><p>—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic</p><p><a href="https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/thou-pickle-herring-in-the-puppet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.lettersofnote.com/p/thou-</span><span class="invisible">pickle-herring-in-the-puppet</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RobertBurns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertBurns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/18thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>18thCentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/insults" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insults</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/critics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>critics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BurnsNight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BurnsNight</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LettersofNote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LettersofNote</span></a></p>