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Old 14-05-2012, 18:03   #96
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Re: Bookworms:What are the best first lines you've read?

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Originally Posted by kestrelx View Post
Have you read Trainspotting? That has a lot of drinking in it... a lot of it's written in Scottish lingo and is hard to read if your not Scottish!
I didn't have too much trouble with: "Hoo be so ceawnted, sure eno," remarked the forester, who had been listening to their discourse, and who now stepped forward, "boh dunna yo think it. Beleemy, lort abbut, Bess Demdike's too yunk an too protty for a witch."
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