SWORD WORDS
Broadsword Claymore Foil
Scimitar Sabre Cutlass
Epée Rapier
Note: Just mucking about on my day off.
SWORD WORDS
Broadsword Claymore Foil
Scimitar Sabre Cutlass
Epée Rapier
Note: Just mucking about on my day off.
GREE
A step or rank earned
Prize given for victory.
from Latin gradus
KIRKCUDBRIGHT, kirlcudbrightshire
Pronounced kirk Coo Bree
Meaning chapel of Cuthbert
He is buried here
Lang may your lum reek
First-footing New Year greeting.
Wi’ other folks coal.
Note: Tradition in Scotland says that good fortune will come to you by the first visitor after midnight at New Year. The visitor should be a tall, dark and handsome stranger bearing a gift for the family. A small lump of coal.
Translation: Long may your chimney smoke/smell (i.e.) have a fire for warmth; all the better with other people’s coal.
DULL
There’s a place called Dull
in Scotland It is twinned with
Boring Oregon
CRUMMOCK
A staff with crooked head
used walking in the countryside
Good to have at hand
GARDYLOO
A loud warning shout
made from an upstairs window
as slops were thrown out
Doris and Donna
Sporting their bleached Wombat hairdo’s
ruling their Kingstons