"We celebrate with friends and family. Scots and their friends get together in a traditional get together where the 'Argentine barbecue' 'Asado Criollo' is combined with the joy and spirit of the Scottish Country Dance. After singing 'Auld Lang Syne', our hopes for the New Year are expressed.

From a distance, Scots and their friends in Argentina wish everyone in Scotland and around the world a happy, peaceful and prosperous 2008!"

Monica Loreto, Buenos Aires

"New Mexico is unique in that it has a variety of Native American communities and a vibrant Hispanic community to go along with the English-speaking culture. Singing Auld Lang Syne has become traditional for most mainstream New Mexico society, but the Pueblo Indians hold ceremonial dances (often sacred) that I suspect would bypass the singing. And relatively few would connect the song to Burns and Scotland.

Ferenc (Frank) Szasz, Albuquerque

"New Year's Eve is celebrated in a variety of ways. Some quietly pass the time at home, while others ring in the New Year with a party which always includes 'Auld Lang Syne' at the stroke of Midnight. One Digby Tradition is the Annual Levee in which citizens gather at the Town Hall in the afternoon of New Year's Day to wish each other well."

Kristy Herron, Digby

"The celebration of the New Year where I am from (Texas via Indiana) is by the gathering of friends and or family and after eating, drinking and dancing, the New Year is brought in with the fanfare of cazoos and other loud noise-makers, the popping of champagne bottles and the singing of 'Auld Lang Syne'. Everybody kisses everybody else, then they go home. Or pass out. In some homes in Texas the people eat black-eyed peas for good luck. In the Midwest they may eat pork and saurkraut – at midnight – so they will have money in their pocket in the New Year."

Carol Decker, Houston