David proposed:
> On the subject of the words, most music reads right guid willie-waucht
> and singers treat the phrasing accordingly and I've always wondered
> whether it should be right guid-willie waucht
Chambers' Concise Scottish Dictionary agrees with you:
willie-waught
... from the wrong division of the words in Burns' Auld Lang Syne; see
guidwillie (GUID) and WAUCHT.
Would be nice if 'Guidwillie' could be applied to a US president.
Derek
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