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  • Ficus vallis-choudae oota mushroom ooten (plural) mushroom oroluo

    Chapter 5 1999

  • Luhya (Marachi): luoba Luhya (Samia): obwoba Luhya (Tachoni): obwaba, bumbo Luo: obuolo, obwolo Maa: osuyai Mbeere: ikunu Meru: makunu Pokot: kelyomough, oota, ooten (plural)

    Chapter 7 1999

  • "You can wadger your henmist bodle on that," says Sandy, as he took a rive ooten a penny lafe.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Bandy took a bit tarry string, or tabaka or something, ooten his breeks pooch, an ', nippin' aff a quarter o 'a yaird o't, he into his moo wi't.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • But Pottie sprang oot o 'the coat -- it wasna ill to get ooten, puir chield -- an' doon the yaird a 'he cud flee, wi' Sandy at his tail, whirlin 'the hewk roond his heid, an' skreechin 'like the very mischief.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • I think he thocht he was brunt, for he nippit up the water bottle, an 'took a sweech o' cauld watter, an 'then gae a pech like's he'd come ooten a fit.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • When I turned roond, here's Sandy stappin 'ooten his kilt, an' gaen awa 'to pet on his troosers.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • I'm shure we hadna abune a moofu 'o' tea drucken, an 'Sandy was juist awa' to tak 'aff' the ham, when the fryin 'pan was knockit ooten his hand, an' doon the lum cam 'a pozel o' bricks an 'shute that wudda filled a cairt.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • It was Sandy's turn noo; an 'efter Dauvid Kenawee, auld Geordie Steel, an' Moses Certricht had gotten the chairman pu'd oot o 'the butter kit, an' on to the boiler-heid again, Sandy raise ooten his seat wi 'a look on his face like a nicht watchman.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • "Man, Aleck," says Sandy, when we were a 'on the green juist takin' a look roond aboot's, "it looks juist like the streen that you sat up 'on that very tree there, an' pappit Gairner Winton wi 'oslins that you'd stealt ooten his ain gairden.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

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