Topical Words – Compiled by Dick Shunery

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An occasional service to readers offering selected meanings of certain words that have suddenly become newsworthy ‘Doonbeg’ Doon: an Anglicisation of the Irish word Dún, meaning a stone built settlement (a golf clubhouse, perhaps? – Ed). Beg: an Anglicisation of the Irish word ‘beag’ (small). To beg is also to ask somebody earnestly or humbly… Read more »