Robert Burns (25 Januar 1759 in Allowa, Ayrshire – 21 Julie 1796 in Dumfries), cawed Robbie or Rabbie Burns, is the naitional poet o Scotland. He wrate in Scots, wi whiles some Inglis influence. He is widely kent as the Naitional Makar o Scotland, an his wark is celebrate aw ower the warld. Athort the warld he is the best kent o the mony makars that haes wrocht in the Scots leid, tho he forby screived mony poems in Inglis an in a kynd o licht Scots that can be eithly read by fowk nae sae acquaint wi Scots, within an furth o Scotland.

Scots (or "Lallans", a poetic spellins for lawlands, Scots Gaelic: Beurla Ghallta/Albais) is a Wast Germanic leid o the Anglic varietie that's spaken on the Lawlands an Northren Isles o Scotland an en tha stewartrie o Ulster en Ireland (whaur it's kent as "Ulster-Scots", "Scotch", or "Ullans"). En maist airts, hit is spaken anent tha Scots Gaelic an Inglis leids.

A veelage is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smawer than a toun, wi a population rangin frae a few hunder tae a few thoosand (sometimes tens o thoosands).