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prettygoodwordmachair (MAH-khuhr) - n., a strip of sandy, grassy, often lime-rich land just above the high-water mark at a sandy shore.
Lime-rich because it often includes seashells, and common on the NW coast of Scotland and Ireland. For the pronunciation, that /kh/ represents the rough H sound at the start of Hannukah or the end of Bach -- not a sound in English-origin words and so hard to show in ascii letters. It makes sense here as it's taken from Scots Gaelic, where it also has several extended meanings, (including the low and level part of a farm).
---L.
Lime-rich because it often includes seashells, and common on the NW coast of Scotland and Ireland. For the pronunciation, that /kh/ represents the rough H sound at the start of Hannukah or the end of Bach -- not a sound in English-origin words and so hard to show in ascii letters. It makes sense here as it's taken from Scots Gaelic, where it also has several extended meanings, (including the low and level part of a farm).
---L.
