Julian Barnes at the Wikipedia: click here
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Topics to debate
Island
sex
Razor
clams
Marriage
Lines
Islanders'
wedding night
Buttons
on jerseys
Holiday
activities in the island: his and hers
Marriage
= picking razor clams?
Political
leaders
Growing
potatoes in the island
What
was his pressumption?
Look up these words:
cockle,
slewed, windcheater, yanked, holdall, vase, waxing, oven glove, slaughter crofter,
windsock
Some more vocabulary:
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| Twin Otter |
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Traigh Eais
|
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Orosay (=Barra,
the most southern island)
|
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Traigh Mòhr
|
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| wing strut |
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passing bay
|
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machair
|
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Beinn Mhartainn
|
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lark
|
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| twite |
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wheatear
|
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wagtail
|
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| ringed plover |
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cormorant
|
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gannet
|
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shag
|
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fulmar
|
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sea pink
|
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yellow rattle
|
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purple vetch
|
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flag iris
|
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self-heal
|
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| Greian Head |
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| airstrip |
