LL-L "Language varieties" 2005.11.04 (06) [E]

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   L O W L A N D S - L * 04 November 2005 * Volume 06
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From: Isaac M. Davis <isaacmacdonalddavis at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2005.11.04 (03) [E]


Scríobh Críostóir:

> "Burstheoune" ("Bridgetown") seems to be a relic of any older form of Yola
> than the sort used by Ms Browne. This is to be expected: place names 
> usually
> fossilise older forms of spelling and pronunciation. Browne appears to 
> have
> tried to represent Yola sounds faithfully by her spelling system, which is
> reminscient of but not identical to systems used in other Yola excerpts we
> know. "Burstheoune" is analysable as "bur" ("bridge") and "theoune"
> ("town"), with a possessive suffix on the first element. Phonemically, the
> spelling "theoune" (elsewhere in the excerpt it is "teoune") seems to be 
> an
> attempt to represent a dental form of [t]. Whilst dental forms are usual 
> in
> Hiberno-English, I do not know if they existed in Old or Middle English or
> Flemish. If not it would suggest that Yola (or at least the Yola of 
> Browne)
> took them from Irish. I do not know the Old English form of "bridge".

Unless I am very much mistaken, it is bricg (pronounced like the modern 
word, [brIdZ]), brig in the Danelaw and Scotland.

Isaac

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