AMMIL an Exmoor word for “the sparkle of morning sunlight through hoar-frost”; shirr, Cumbrian for “small ripples on water”; tafolog, Welsh for a place “abounding in dock leaves”; smeuse, “a gap in the base of a hedge made by the regular passage of a small animal” in Sussex.
Friday, 6 March 2015
Landmarks:Harvesting natural words of the British Isles
AMMIL an Exmoor word for “the sparkle of morning sunlight through hoar-frost”; shirr, Cumbrian for “small ripples on water”; tafolog, Welsh for a place “abounding in dock leaves”; smeuse, “a gap in the base of a hedge made by the regular passage of a small animal” in Sussex.
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