the immigrant...continued

english is a language

now English is a language
which many of us speak
but let me say just one thing
the English are unique
they have these English accents
quite different from my own
it took six months to understand
a fact i had not known
and then, when i could almost know
most every word they said
i up and moved to Scotland
where they speak Scots instead
well actually, it's English
but one would hardly guess
the accent is so Scottish
i understood it less
it purrs and growls and rolls the r's
it lilts and dips and sways
plus Scot's have heaps of their own words
och, language is a maze

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