Children as red indians canoeing a cardboard box across the rug with a vision of the route round the estuary in their heads.
The Scottish Word:

Firth.

“This is rare! Cmon let’s awa outside an put the box into the firth an dae it for real.”

Translate:

firth: estuary, wide inlet of the sea.

“This is great fun! Come on let us away outside and put the box into the estuary and do it for real.”

[firth spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]

Illustration Friday. Pretend.

The Scottish Word: firth with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.

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