LL-L "Names" 2002.04.03 (01) [E]

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From: Thomas <t.mcrae at uq.net.au>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2002.04.02 (07) [E]

on 3/4/02 10:38, Lowlands-L at sassisch at yahoo.com wrote:

> My mother, who used to live very close to the street in Hamilton, and my
> father, a Hamilton native, both pronounce "Strachan" as " 'Strawn'
In the High Court of Scotland in th eearly 1950's Lord Strac han's name
was
pronounced Strachan by everybody....or else.
Regards
Tom
Tom Mc Rae PSOC
Brisbane Australia
"The masonnis suld mak housis stark and rude,
To keep the pepill frome the stormes strang,
And he that fals, the craft it gois all wrang."

>From 15th century Scots Poem 'The Buke of the Chess'

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Names

Tom,

It was Randy Elzinga you quoted above, not Lowlands-L.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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