Word: bleckguaird
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...Bluidie Bleckguaird. Until recently, the Lallans dialect was used chiefly by Young and his co-secessionists for pastoral poetry, "flytin," i.e., jousting in libelous verse. Then a classics student at St. Andrews University, where Young has taught for ten years, asked him to do a translation for a dramatics group. The play: Aristophanes' The Frogs, which, because it is less scabrous than most other Greek comedies, is the one most often served up in freshman courses. But even mild Aristophanes is as ripe as Roquefort, and scholars' English translations tend toward the tepid. Young's translation...
mischievous villain, bluidie bleckguaird...
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