The Giants and the Joneses (12 page)
Three years later
‘B
EESH, BEESH,
BEESH
, Jumbeelia!’ the girl giant pleaded. She was sitting up in bed and gazing at her big sister.
Their mother pottered about the room, tidying up and half-listening to the story she had heard her older daughter tell so many times before. It was a ridiculous story, she thought, but anything was better than the awful books she used to have to read to Jumbeelia. Thank goodness she didn’t have to go through all that with Woozly.
Jumbeelia sat on Woozly’s bed. Both pairs of eyes were alight as Jumbeelia told the story she never tired of telling and Woozly never tired of hearing. This story didn’t come out of a book. It was the story of Jumbeelia and the iggly plops.
again – tweeko | fill – whedderwhay |
all – ootle | funny – heehuckerly |
and – da | Giant Land – Groil |
are – oor | giant language – Groilish |
around – arump | give – niffle |
away – awook | go – glay |
baby – bobbaleely | goodbye – yahaw |
back – abreg | grandfather – grishpij |
bad – pecky | grandmother – grishmij |
bean – bimple | grass – strimp |
beanstalk – bimplestonk | grow – eep |
button – whackleclack | have – ev |
cat – spratch | heart – jarn |
chip – snishsnosh | hello – wahoy |
cuddly – woozly | help – aheesh |
cushions – squodgies | home – jum |
down – boff | horrible – frikely |
drink – gloosh | how – heek |
father – pij | I – ee |
I’ll – eel | other – ithry |
is – ez | our – woor |
joy – sprubbin | peace – zab |
kill – kraggle | person – plop |
killer – kraggler | phone – frangle |
kind – jin | pillar box – pobo |
kitten – spratchkin | please – beesh |
land – chay | poor – roopy |
lawn mower – strimpchogger | pound – poddum |
little – iggly | pull – haroof |
look – oggle | quickly – flisterflay |
lovely – beely | right – rootle |
many – munchly | see – oggle |
mine – mubbin | sheep – blebber |
mother – mij | sorry – yimp |
my – mub | splash – glishglursh |
naughty – pecky | stop – askorp |
no – nug | swap – sweefswoof |
not – nug | thank you – oidle oy |
old – floopy | that – osh |
one – wunk | the – o |
them – uth | warning – throg |
they – uth | washing line – swisheroo |
this – ish | where – queesh |
three – thrink | white – lolshly |
tomorrow – chingulay | with – fa |
two – twunk | worm – squerple |
weed – veep | you – oy |
weedkiller – veep kraggler |
abreg – back | ev – have |
aheesh – help | ez – is |
arump – around | fa – with |
askorp – stop | flisterflay – quickly |
awook – away | floopy – old |
beely – lovely | frangle – phone |
beesh – please | frikely – horrible |
bimple – bean | frimmot – carrot |
bimplestonk – beanstalk | glay – go |
blebber – sheep | glishglursh – splash |
bobbaleely – baby | gloosh – drink |
boff – down | grishmij – grandmother |
chay – land | grishpij – grandfather |
chingulay – tomorrow | Groil – Giant Land |
da – and | Groilish – giant language |
ee – I | haroof – pull |
eel – I’ll | heehuckerly – funny |
eep – grow | heek – how |
eeped – grown | iggly – little |
ish – this | pecky – bad, naughty |
ithry – other | pij – father |
jarn – heart | plop – person |
jin – kind | pobo – pillar box |
jum – home | poddum – pound |
kraggle – kill | queesh – where |
kraggler – killer | roopy – poor |
lolshly – white | rootle – right |
mij – mother | snishsnosh – chip |
mub – my | spratch – cat |
mubbin – mine | spratchkin – kitten |
munchly – many | sprubbin – joy |
niffle – give | squerple – worm |
nug – no, not | squodgies – cushions |
o – the | strimp – grass |
oggle – look, see | strimpchogger – lawn |
oggled – seen | mower |
oidle oy – thank you | sweefswoof – swap |
oor – are | swisheroo – washing line |
ootle – all | thrink – three |
osh – that | throg – warning |
oy – you | tweeko – again |
twunk – two | woor – our |
uth – they, them | woozly – cuddly |
veep – weed | wunk – one |
veep kraggler – weedkiller | yahaw – goodbye |
wahoy – hello | yimp – sorry |
whackleclack – button | zab – peace |
whedderwhay – fill |