History of Auld Lang Syne: What Does It Mean?
5 min readDec 30, 2020
Why is it that each New Year’s Eve, we sing “Auld Lang Syne,” but do we know what it means?
The song contains words from a language that few are familiar with, in a syntax that is confusing to most, and is from a poem about friends recalling adventures they had long ago but had nothing to do with New Year’s Eve.
