>> "Who Will Marry Me?"
>> "leum" in this case is probably a misspelling
>> of "liom" meaning "with me."
> I obviously 'jumped' to a conclusion. (I thought perhaps there may
> have been an idiosyncratic association of jump and marriage [...]
I was flummoxed the same way, trying to figure out which of the
alternative readings from McAlpine's dictionary might fit:
jump
spring
leap
frisk
interrog + marriage + skip
start
fight
quarrel
emission
animal semen
The Highlands, where women are women and rams are nervous?
Next step is to try locating the Gaelic text that goes with the title.
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