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Margaret Grant


Margaret Grant

Margaret Grant (nee McWilliam) was born in Kinnoir in 1938. A retired Law Accountant, she attended Kinnoir School and The Gordon Schools, Huntly. She has had two books of Doric verse published, Jist for a Lauch in 1999 and Anither Keckle in 2003, and has also appeared in print in The Leopard.


Div ye ken?

Margaret Grant

Fit did Einstein invent, Dad?
Far's Scotland's biggest toon?
Foo div ye spell diarrhoea?
I cwidna say, ma loon.

Faa wrote Robinson Crusoe, Dad?
Foo much is ten times three?
Fit's a baby puddock?
Noo son ye're bafflin me.

Fit's the capital o France, Dad?
Faa held oot his dish for mair?
Far aboot's the Taj Mahal?
I doot ye've got ma there.

I hope ye dinna mind, Dad,
Aa this questions, said the bairn.
Michty no, jist speer awa,
It's the only wye ye'll learn.



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