LL-L: "How do you say ...?" LOWLANDS-L, 20.OCT.1999 (01) [E/S]

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From: john feather [johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk]
Subject: "How do you say .."

Dear Lowlanders

Three little points:

1. Who are the "English speakers" who say "fork and knife"?

2. I would take "so it is" to be typical southern Irish.

3. Does "I set up my computer" mean "I turn(ed) on my computer"? Is there a
semantic question as well as a syntactical one?

John Feather
johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

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From: Gerald Tighe [gftighe2 at home.com]
Subject: LL-L: "How do you say ...?" LOWLANDS-L, 19.OCT.1999 (04) [S]

Hi Folk:

> John M. Tait [jmtait at altavista.net] wrote

snip

> Thare's the problem, asweel, o whether a bodie chynges syntax whan
thay'rspeakin
> English, or cairries the Scots syntax ower. I think (imagine) I
> speak gey ordinar Scots English, apairt frae the twang; but I canna get awa
> frae the Shetland phrase 'sock feet' (stocking soles) at aa ither bodie ...
> snip

As A bairn A did it by preference, but here, not only during the slushy
months, it
is considered good
manners to gate aboot folks hames in yer "stocking feet".

Regards

Gerald
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