Wednesday 15 July 2015

Marryland

Marryland: verb. To marryland is, as the word indicates, to marry land. This word is usually meant to be taken in a strictly metaphorical sense, as demonstrated by a sentence found in The Complete Encyclopaedia on the Chechen Life by Bulat Bulataev. It states that a Chechen woman is, from the very day of her birth, locally marrylanded and subsequently expected to stay within ten kilometres of her village for the rest of her life.This word is not to be confused with the noun merryland, which denotes a land with a high percentage of happy people, i.e. not Chechnya.

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