If you thought "Rabbie Burns" wrote "Auld Lang Syne," you'd be doubly wrong. Burns never signed his name "Rabbie" or "Robbie" {or, indeed, "Bobbie" Burns, as some North Americans insist on calling him}. His signatures included "Robert," "Robin," "Rab"-and, on at least one occasion, "Spunkie.
( John Lloyd )
[ QI: The Second Book of General ]
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