LL-L: "Morphology" LOWLANDS-L, 31.AUG.2001 (01) [E]

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From: Thomas <t.mcrae at uq.net.au>
Subject: LL-L: "Morphology" LOWLANDS-L, 31.AUG.2001 (01) [E]

Ian James Parsley <parsley commented
> Subject: LL-L: "Morphology" LOWLANDS-L, 30.AUG.2001 (01) [E]
>
> Well, it's a question. 'Postie' and such like are
> other alternatives for the agent -ie in Scots (that
> one has even spread into general colloquial British
> English now), but I often wondered if there was a
> slight hint of endearment in such terms (in the same
> way that the so-called 'diminutive' is also very often
> used for 'endearment' rather than 'small size').
>From my own Edinburgh experience Ian is dead right about this 'ie' suffix.
Working Class folks like us frequently used it in this context. Got to the
stage where school lunches (skuil dunners tae us) were referred to as 'The
Dinneries'such assemblies were very noisy anyway :-). In 1965 when home on
leave from Ghana I was amused to find that the local ice cream van was now
'The Icie'. Calling the local chip shop,  'The Chippie' was very common and

this has spread to Australia as well. There was a great book on Edinburgh
chidrens' songs called 'The Singing Street' published in the 1950's in
which
this diminutive was dicussed at some length. Sorry the author's name
escapes
me and I can't find who I lent my copy to.
Regards
Tom
Tom Mc Rae
Brisbane Australia
"Oh wid some power the Giftie gie us
Tae see oorselves as ithers see us"
Robert Burns--

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