This week Diarmaid O Muirithe provided two more Ulster-Scots words in his weekly column in the
Irish Times (8 March). The first was
knowe, which is the Ulster-Scots word for a hillock and which occurs in names such as Sandyknowes and Fairknowe in North Belfast. The second was
grummel, which means rubbish or rubble and is used particularly of loose stones, earth or mud. Both words are in use today and are part of the contemporary Ulster-Scots vocabulary.
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