LL-L 'Idiomatica' 2006.10.31 (08) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 31 October 2006 * Volume 01
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From: Luc Hellinckx [luc.hellinckx at gmail.com]
Subject: LL-L 'Idiomatica'

Beste Jacqueline,

You wrote:
> Hello John, If we asked my mother "what's for dinner tonight"? The stock
> answer would be "Moeskapoenen met hangelippen en frikadellen met
> apestarten". I assume that she got this from her mother because she always
> said it with a "Twents" accent, whereas otherwise she spoke ABN.
> Nice of you to ask that question, I am enjoying the memory. Jacqueline

My mother's answer would be "rut op e stokske" (and she heard it from my
grandmother). Nobody (including my mother), knew what "rut" actually was
:-D .
And I still don't know...even after having searched every imaginable
dictionary for a possible clue.

Greetz,

Luc Hellinckx

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