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Can you render me the meaning of these words?
Teiars
Batris
Egsosts
Siocs
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Judging by the taciturnity, nobody found these at Atomica :-)
'Egsosts' looks like a random conglomeration of letters. Some Carmarthenshire site has it. I thought you were our authority on Cymraeg, Mav?
'Batris' is a little more common, being a name (Greek?) and some StarTrek ship. The route of battery is also batri (ME), for what it's worth.
'Siocs' is some abbrev.
'Teiars', see Egsosts above
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Teiars = tires Batris = batteries egsosts = automobile exhaust components sciocs = shocks sustained by owners of property destroyed by floods.
Perhaps maverick is a dedicated environmentalist, depressed by trashed beaches and flooded homes. The words were in Welsh.
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Well done Dr. Bill - you made them seem obvious, which they weren't at all to me. 
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Yes, well done, good doctor! I saw these emblazoned on the side of a tyre/tire truck, and it struck me as a fine example of loan words getting the makeover in a local pattern of fonetigs - ah, sorry, phonetics  edit siocs is actually referring to shocks, or shock absorbers (in longhand)
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