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I wonder if, when this book was produced in 1919, did the publisher appreciate that in Scots and Ulster-Scots, 'greets' means 'cries'. Many of the 'brave and faithful sons' and relatives of the 'glorious dead' would have been struck by the probably unintentional double-meaning.
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