Monday, November 07, 2011
Do You Like Buns?
[H.C. Beeching], Pages from a Private Diary (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1898), p. 12:
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At luncheon, Miss A., the Scotch governess, asked me if I liked buns. I replied that I liked them if they were made with sultana raisins and not currants. She blushed, and explained that she meant the poet "Buns." This, it seems, is the patriotic manner of pronouncing Burns.
