LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.05.05 (04) [E]

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From: <burgdal32 at mac.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.04.30 (04) [E/LS]

>> From: "Randy Elzinga" <frisiancow at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Cochere
>>
>> Dear Lowlanders,
>>
>> I recently received an email from someone in which she told me that one
>> of
>> her grandparents spoke something called Cochere, which, in a subsequent
>> email, she said was perhaps a "dialect offshoot of Low Saxon."  Is this
>> the case?  Can anyone say any more about it?
>>
>> Randy Elzinga
>> frisiancow at hotmail.com
>
> Hello Randy !
>
> I don't know any Low Saxon variant or dialect with a name that sounds
> like "Cochere" but this word reminds me to Hebrew "koscher" ("pure" in
> religious sense) and makes me think that it might be Yiddish. Could this
> assumption be right ?
>
> Regards, Holger
>
> ----------
>
> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Language varieties
>
> Randy,
>
> I too have never heard of this "Cochere."  Could it have anything to do
> with French _cocher_ 'coachman' and _cochère_ "carriage" -- maybe some
> type of "coachmen's talk"?
>
> Regards,
> Reinhard/Ron
>
Randy,

In Flanders we have a very common name: de Cockere.
I think  "Cochere " is an older version of that. Older familynames or
toponimes(?) in our region spelled the 'k' also as 'ch'.
One person is called ' Van Rechem'  which now would be spelled as ' Van
Rekkem'.
In the old days when rich people  celebrated marriages there was alwaeys
a
cook who was hired to prepare the dishes on the feest. So 'Cochere'
maens
the cook!
Regards,
Luc Vanbrabant

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