Word: feoil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chlanna nan con, thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil!* Not since 1745 has this most ferocious of Scottish battle cries sent a chill through England's Border region. But last week the horrors of a porridge famine threatened Scotland. The British War Office commandeered all available oatmeal stocks to feed liberated Europe. Said the London Daily Mail with massive understatement: "Protests are likely...
...Scenarist-Fictionist Raine (Tugboat Annie), who criticized Eire's refusal to let Britain use Irish ports as illogical and unrealistic, replies thus to Reader O'Malley's question: "NUAIR ITH-EANN NA H-EIRENNAIGH FEOIL DIA H-AOINE, IOSFAD I ACHT NIL AON GOILE AGAM DO MADADH FEOIL." Translation from the Gaelic: "When Catholic Eire eats flesh on Friday, so shall I- but I have a poor stomach for dog meat...
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