Word: bairn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Argyll wi' the King's men rairin' at his duff, all the whyles hummin' an' hankerin' at ilka Scottish hizzie that leuks as if she griens a kiutle. Hoch aye, what a collie-shangie! As the fourth day daws, the great ram-feezled bairn gaes spracklin' back to Beigg, ye ken, in a wee drunt. But the primsie lass he left behind shakes her cockernony at him and soon pits some rumble-gumption...
...braw Commons debate on disarmament with bluff-browed Laborite Aneurin Bevan, Defense Minister Duncan Sandys, himself the bairn of a Cameron mother, piped up for the costume of his hardy northern kinsmen. Swedish scientists, he told the House, have found that the "unnatural heat" caused by wearing trousers could effect up to 1,000 times more genetic damage to men than radiation. "They conclude." added Sassenach-bred Sandys, "by recommending the general adoption of the Scottish kilt...
...Geordie (Gilliat & Launder; George K. Arthur). "ARE YOU UNDERSIZED? LET ME MAKE A DIFFERENT MAN OF YOU!" Wee Geordie's heart gave a glorious thump as he read the ad in the Drumfechan Clarion. He was undersized indeed; so wee a bairn of ten years old was hardly to be seen in all the glen. At school he had to stand on a box to reach the blackboard, and when he went walking with bonny Jean, she was half a head taller than he. That very night, with the courage of desperation, the thrifty young Scotsman scraped his last...
British Israelites are partial to an unorthodox philological theory that holds the English language to be derived from Hebrew. Thus bar (son) reappears in the British "bairn"; peri (fruit) in "berry"; katon (little) in "kitten." The word "British" is simply a rendering of Berit-ish (covenant...