Posts Tagged ‘tunnel’

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Bourie

by Chief on May 3, 2010 at 12:00 am
Gregor crawls and slides down the tunnel into the moudiewort kitchen.

“Hello wee man. What brings you doon oor bourie on a braw bricht day like the day?” Translated: bourie: burrow, lair of an animal. “Hello youngster. What brings you down our burrow on such a bright nice sunny day as this?” This references when I was a child and we had access to estate grounds [...]

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Wirm.

by Chief on March 15, 2010 at 12:00 am
Wirm.

“Save yersel son. Let yir brakwast wirm go.” Translated: wirm, wurm: worm. “Save yourself son. Let your breakfast worm go.” subterranean drama. If you were in a hot air balloon looking down on a rainforest it would look like a big flat green carpet. Yet you know that it is a jungle stuffed with all [...]

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Napper

by Chief on October 7, 2004 at 12:00 am
For a moment the weight of all the earth upon his head.

“Ah telt ye tae keep yir hard bannet oan tae protect yer napper.” Translated: napper: head. “I warned you, did I not, to keep your hard hat on, to protect your head.”

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