muir
A Scots and Northern English word for a moor — an area of open, uncultivated upland with peaty or boggy soil, heather, and rough grass.
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"A group of senior pupils at Plockton High School have launched a new social enterprise ['Muir'] aimed at promoting Gaelic language and culture through locally-designed merchandise." www.whfp.com/2026/04/09/3...
For this, we pray. And possibly make sacrifices to the Muir. If we knew what their favourite sacrifice was. Which we don’t. It’s very sad.
To this day grateful yet astounded that Tamsyn Muir is getting away with this
If you thought the John Muir Trail was the ultimate Sierra Nevada challenge, National Geographic just raised the bar. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/this-sierra-route-was-just-named-one-of-national-geographi…
It absolutely is! I wonder if Tamsyn Muir has charts of who fucked who in these books. I suspect they would be... complex.
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A Scots and Northern English word for a moor — an area of open, uncultivated upland with peaty or boggy soil, heather, and rough grass. It appears frequently in Scottish place names (e.g., Muirhead, Muirkirk) and in Scottish literature. The word has a bleak, windswept resonance deeply embedded in the Scottish landscape imagination.
They walked across the muir for an hour before the farmhouse came into view.
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(especially, Scotland, Northern England) A moor.
“"A group of senior pupils at Plockton High School have launched a new social enterprise ['Muir'] aimed at promoting Gaelic language and culture through locally-designed merchandise." www.whfp.com/2026/04/09/3...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“For this, we pray. And possibly make sacrifices to the Muir. If we knew what their favourite sacrifice was. Which we don’t. It’s very sad.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“To this day grateful yet astounded that Tamsyn Muir is getting away with this”
— Bluesky· May 2026“If you thought the John Muir Trail was the ultimate Sierra Nevada challenge, National Geographic just raised the bar. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/this-sierra-route-was-just-named-one-of-national-geographics-top-100-hikes-of-a-lifetime/”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It absolutely is! I wonder if Tamsyn Muir has charts of who fucked who in these books. I suspect they would be... complex.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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