[lit-ideas] Re: Saturday Night Poem
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:39:34 +0900
Marvelous!
John
On 3/11/07, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(it helps if you read this with a scot's accent)
the creator of harry potter
and i
are both scots but you know
i've never read a word she's written
and she's never read a word i've written
so that's that as far as collegiality among wordsmiths is concerned
we've at least whisky in common
uisge beatha
however it is that you pronounce that
what scots call the water of life
i bet you're wondering if there's also a water of death
well yes, it runs in burns and
pools in the lochs
also in the north sea
it drowns people because
it's bloody freezing
speaking of death, you'll find on the web that
volda is in norway
hence voldamort
i suppose
it's a place with
a "university college" offering what they call "Catechetical Training"
however you pronounce that
and whatever that is
oh and hogwarts
must have come from somewhere in the dictionary quite near hogwash i
think
or gum
hog gum,
a kind of gum obtained in the west indies
or hogback or hogframe or hogcote or
hog in armour
an awkward or clumsy person
stiff and ill at ease
or those indian deer they call hogs
or hogfish, which is a porpoise or sea hog or maybe a manatee or
hoglouse or
hogget carousing on hogmanay
which would mean a young boar of the second year getting fou on the
first day of the year
or hoggerel, a young sheep of the second year or
hoggaster, a boar in its third year
or hogged, drooping at stem and stern or, when referring to a horse's
mane, cut off short, or
hoggin, screened gravel or sifted gravel
the dictionary's full of it
hogmane
hognut
hogplum
hog reeve
hog'sbean
hogscore
hog's fennel
hogshead
hogskin
hog's pudding
hogweed and a hog tie
for when you're getting all western
and spruced up like
pigs at one time were clearly it
my poor and final thought is that if they had had a hog reeve on san
juan island locally here
a man who adjudicates, settles damages when pigs wander onto another's
land
the whole pig war might have been averted
and what a shame that would be really
for the local economy
and tourism
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
--
John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
Tel. +81-45-314-9324
http://www.wordworks.jp/
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