I grew up around Dungannon and I remember when all the club had was a
sheugh around the edge of the pitch.
The Open Universit y in Scotland are also holding an MBA Open Evening on Wedn esday, September 8, 5pm-7pm, at 10 Drum
sheugh Gardens, Edin bu rgh, EH3 7QJ.
Muldoon plays or trades on this shibboleth in "The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants" (Poems 127-47), in which the
sheugh hides Gallogly, an IRA man who has increasing difficulty with its "sh" rather than its "gh." See Wheatley (132) and Redmond on the "
sheugh" (107) and Wheatley on the "unfair [currency] exchange" of translation (128-29).
As such, it attracted no notice, it was just there, as unremarkable a part of speech as '
sheugh' or 'drooth'--words (for a muddy ditch and a drunkard) that I soon learned strike most English speakers with the discordance of oddity.
I saw the battle sair and tough, ('and reekin-red ran mony a
sheugh'.)
Meanwhile the Sellafield menace is till operating across the
sheugh...
Gallogly lies down in the
sheugh to munch through a Beauty of Bath.
Either way, I now know how witches felt in Medieval times when they were hounded without mercy and offered a choice of burning at the stake or drowning in the nearest
sheugh.
With transport reckoned to be the London bid's weakest link, the thought of 13 VIPs being stuck at temporary traffic lights and staring down the
sheugh of a road-digger's a**e is too horrific to contemplate.
Sheugh (muddy ditch), drooth (drunkard), thrawn (stubborn), stocious (afflicted with a bad cold, or utterly intoxicated), crabbit (grumpy), foul kyte (a term of abuse, meaning and origin unknown), hurselly (speaking in a way that suggests you need to clear your throat) -- it is these shards of his vocabulary that have stayed in my mind rather than anything of substance.
Will we never hear of scunner or
sheugh again?" he moaned.