The Scots of the Reformation

In the 15 sixties, several decades before the political union of england and scotland. It became mor common for printers in scotland to use english in their publications alongside the traditional scots. If king james the fifth were alive, who hearing one of his subjects speak sodren or speak english, he would declare him to be a traitor. So here we find the scotsh word larit for english, larid, which meant learned or taught. The passage also refers to english as sudrun, which literally meant southern, and specifically meant southern speech, or the speech used in the south in england.