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Janice Galloway (born 1955 in Saulcoats, Scotland) is a screiver o novelles, short stories, prose-poetry, non-fiction an libretti. Her buiks include novelles that haed effecks on ither scrievers. Novelles The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1989) Foreign Parts (1994) Clara (2002) (based on the life of Clara Schumann) ...
Slang, an the informal forms o language an aw, allous a body tae talk aboot thir realities in a speicial language redd o the ordinar connotations in the ordinar register. Slang vocabulars is parteecularly rich in certain domains, sic as sexuality, veeolence, crime, an drogs. There isna juist ae slang, but mony mony varieties—or dialects—o ...
Wallie-dug. A wallie-dug on a mantel piece. Wallie-dugs are fantoosh variorums for ordinar makkit oot o cheenae (kent as wallie forby). [1] [2] Thay uisually come in twasomes an pitten at aither side o the mantel piece. [3] They war common in the 19t yeirhunner [3] an makit in bulk at potteries sic as Powkshaws in Glesga or Portobello near ...
Nasreddin or Nasreddin Hodja [1] wis a Seljuq satirical Sufi, born in Hortu Veelage in Sivrihisar, Eskişehir Province, present-day Turkey an dee'd in 13t century in Akşehir, near Konya, a caipital o the Seljuk Sultanate o Rum, in the day's Turkey. [2] He is conseedert a populist filosofer an wise man, remembered for his funny stories an ...
Sita Murt. Sita Murt ( Catalan pronunciation: [ˈsitə ˈmurt]; Igualada, Barcelona 1946 – 1 Dizember 2014) wis a Spainyie fashion designer an businesswumman. Her name Sita is a diminutive frae Carmencita. [1] As a fast-expandin weemen's label, Sita Murt is designed wi the young, feminine, fun-luvin wumman in mind an haes a emphasis on saft ...
Still Game is a telly sitcom pitten oot bi the BBC, starrin Ford Kiernan an Greg Hemphill.[1] The chief chairacters o the shaw is Jack an Victor, twa auld anes that bide in a Glesga hie touer.[2] The programme is an affshoot o Kiernan an Hemphill's sketch shaw Chewin' the Fat, whaur thae twa chairacters first kythed.[3] Ither chairacters are ...
Range cairt o the giraffe dividit bi subspecies. The giraffe ( Giraffa camelopardalis) is an African even-taed ungulate mammal, the tawest livin terrestrial animal an the maist muckle ruminant. ↑ Grubb, P. (2005). "Giraffa camelopardalis". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.).
