BFG translated into Guid and Freendly in Scots Translation –

We Speak the Language of Bargains

Roald Dahl wrote the BFG back in1985 and now it has been turned into a Hollywood blockbuster by the legend that is Stephen Spielberg. A man who has been around so long I suspect there are many younger directors thinking 70 years old might be a good time for the veteran director to slow down and give others a chance.

 Oh No It’s the Fleshlumpeater

It is the story of young Sophie who lives in an orphanage and who is kidnapped by the Big Friendly Giant, a rather elderly giant who whisks her off to the giant country. There he eats snozzcumbers, but not people unlike other giants who eat human flesh. Horrors like the man-eating giants called the Fleshlumpeater abound.

And now the much loved story the BFG  has becomes  Guid and Freendly in a new  Scots translation. the new version reconstructs the classic children’s character, ‘fower times as lang as the langest human.’ The Scots giant eats “foosty feechcumbers” rather than snozzcumbers and drinks fuzzleglog  not frobscottle. The G F G  is the new book’s title because it is the Guid Freendly Giant in translation. The story is translated by Glasgow University’s Susan Rennie and published by Black and White Publishing.

Beware the Bairnchawer

Intstead of the original names the giants have been renamed the Fleshlumpeater, Bonecruncher, Manhugger and Childchewer  morph  into Girslegorbler, Banecrumper, Mucklecleeker and Bairnchawer. Dahl’s novels have been translated into nearly sixty languages, and some already appear in Scots, with The Twits translated as The Eejits.

Guid and Freendly Prices

That is just so much better than the Twits. But if you want to be fluent in bargains, the language of James Pirie I suggest a gentle browse through our catalogue. Right at the moment we have end of line bargains galore and a bunch of prices slashed by as much as half.

https://www.jamespirie.com/clearance-end-of-lines.html