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Here are ten facts about Robert Burns, the famous Scottish poet and lyricist.

• Robert Burns (aka Rabbie Burns) was born on 25th January 1759 in Ayrshire, Scotland.

  Burns Night is celebrated with a Burns supper every year in Scotland (and in places all over the world) on 25th January (Burns’s birthday).

• Burns wrote his poems in Scots, standard English and Scots dialect.
• Robert Burns originally spelled his name ‘Burnes’.
• Robert Burns was going to move from Scotland to Jamaica.

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He decided against this when sales of poetry collection Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (also known as the Kilmarnock volume) took off. He moved to Edinburgh instead, and a second edition of his poetry book was published.

• Burns was a brilliant lyricist and he contributed over 100 songs to a book called The Melodies of Scotland.

  He also wrote lyrics for A Select Collection of Scottish Airs for the Voice and The Scots Musical Museum.

• Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne