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Where better to sing your year-end rendition of “Auld Lang Syne”?
The coalfields of Lothian and Fife fueled the growth of baking, distilling, printing, and machine-making industries, giving Edinburgh the epithet “Auld Reekie” (Old Smoky).
Queen Elizabeth II, who had been criticized for not crossing her arms to hold hands with her husband Prince Philip and Prime Minister Tony Blair for the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" in the Millennium Dome, was vindicated Monday by the tabloid Daily Mirror , which said that arms are not supposed to be linked until the last verse of Robert Burns' poem, which starts "And there's a hand, my trusty fere [friend]."
Of course, not all Scotticisms have been excised, and words like auld, land , and syne are probably still to be found in many dictionaries, but only because they are frequent.
The Temple Bar (Temple Bar) attracts a busy, lively crowd; the Norseman (East Essex Street) is favored by the art crowd; the Auld Dubliner (Anglesea Street) is a pleasant pub that caters a lot to tourists.