An iarmailt cho soilleir tana
mar gum biodh am brat-sgàile air a reubadh
’s an Cruthaidhear ’na shuidhe am fianuis a shluaigh
aig a’ bhuntàt ’s a sgadan…
—Ruaraidh MacThòmais, “Leodhas as t-Samhradh”
Published in Scottish Religious Poetry from the sixth century to the present (Saint Andrew Press, 2024)
https://standrewpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9781800830479/scottish-religious-poetry
#Scottish #literautre #poem #poetry #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Hebrides #Lewis #summer
Lying asleep walking
Last night I met my father
Who seemed pleased to see me.
He wanted to speak. I saw
His mouth saying something
But the dream had no sound…
—W.S. Graham, “To Alexander Graham”
published in Collected Poems 1942–1977 (Faber, 1979)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48732/to-alexander-graham
Spotted in #Xmen c1966: #Ogre saying "sneaked off" rather than "snuck off". The increased use of the latter is apparently a very recent development in #American #literautre (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sneaked+off%2Csnuck+off&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3).
#Marvel #comics #linguistics #languagechange #morphology #sociolinguistics
Bevan Thomas
Assoc for Scottish Literature
Joshua McNeill