A Scots dialect word for folk or people; variant of folk used in Scottish English.
A phonetic variant of 'folk' found in Scots and Northern English dialects, derived from Old English 'folc' (people, army), showing regional pronunciation differences.
Burns and other Scottish poets spelled it 'fowk' to capture authentic dialect, and it became a marker of literary Scots—using 'fowk' instead of 'folk' signals you're reading something authentically Scottish.
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