Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, …
He took a large gulp of water to guide the bolus down, then asked, 'what's this?"'
'That's a bannock, dear,' said Mrs. Piper.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang (Page 121)
new vocabulary: bolus
a small rounded mass of a substance, especially if chewed food at the moment of swallowing
new vocabulary: bannock
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in Scottish and northern English cooking, a flat unsweetened cake made with oatmeal or barley flour and typically unleavened
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originally in indigenous Canadian cooking, a type of bread made with wheat flour shaped into round flat cakes and fried or baked