auld

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• Auld lang syne” is Scottish-Gaelic for “old long since,” or, more idiomatically, “days gone by” or “time long past.

• Take this verse by famous Scottish poet Robert Burns in his famous Scottish poem “Auld Lang Syne.”

• When she stands by the bedside of a dying Victor McLaglen and sings “Auld Lang Syne,” it is an occasion for real tears.

• New Years means Champagne, “Auld Lang Syne,” and good college football.

• But it was a time for everybody to join hands as we did on formerly Air Force One and sing "Auld Lang Syne."

• My faither was in it when he was nine, but you're no' allowed to gang doon now till you are twelve year auld.

• He had been workin' on the top o' some auld workin's, an' I suppose they wadna ken, an' it fell in.

• "Ay, an' it's a gran' price for onybody wha kens aboot it," said auld Jamie Lauder.

• If not, it should be remedied; there is enough of the Auld Licht in you to be ravished.

• They called their house 'Scotland,' and doubtless made as good bargains as the 'auld enemy' in the next street.