Word: bairn
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...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...
...gave you one bonny bairn that's gone down in the deep. . . . Now this one is all we are left with, and you'll no acknowledge him. He's yours! He's your son, James! I've been true to you, and I gave...
When Ernest Thompson Seton was a wee bairn in the North of England, his sympathies were not with Little Red Ridinghood but with the wolf. "I felt that his case was not properly presented; he acted strictly within the law, and on each occasion he got a very raw deal." When he was 31, his painting of a wolf crunching a human skull was tossed out of the Grand Salon in Paris with cries of "Horrible! In sympathy with the beast ! " Following year, in New Mexico, he resolved to stop poisoning cattle-slaying wolves. "What right. I asked...