The plural of Haggis can't be Haggi. Hagges, maybe, or even Haggeres. But to
give Haggi as the plural the singular would need to be Haggus. You could
anglicise (oops!) it, and make it Haggises.
joanna
(provoking the thistle)
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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: snap~patrick
> There was a gibbous moon in the sky that night
> When they all came out to dance
> In clooted shoon and brown burnoon
> In the land of the midnight haggis ...
>
> Ochone!!!
>
> The rhymes limp in the above scrap, but if it were me, I'd use your seed
> as
> the refrain-line in a set of rhyming quatrains. Or something. Dipodic
> metre, natch.
>
> Are your protagonists going to be Lesser Spotted or Greater Spotted Haggi?
>
> It's the legs, jimmy -- there's a crucial difference. (They're coming
> round the mountain as they come
>
> Hey! you could have VileBoris chase a terrified creature in the land of
> the
> midnight whatsit.
>
> McGonagall
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:05 PM
> Subject: Re: snap~patrick
>
>
>> Dear Robin de H and other great minds -help!!!!!! the lines
>> 'Land of the midnight haggis' floated into this addled aggled pate -how
>> could they be used??to give pleasure to all poor souls???
>
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