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<font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2"> <br>L O W L A N D S - L - 06 March 2007 - Volume 03<br><br>=========================================================================<br><br>From: <span id="_user_wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">
Paul Finlow-Bates <<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2007.03.05 (07) [E]<br></font><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font size="2">From: <span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Sandy Fleming</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L "Idiomatica" 2007.03.05 (01) [E] <br><br></font><font size="2">Oh yes, the phrase "scart-free" used by at least one Scottish writer has<br></font></p>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">been discussed on the list before. Does "scot-free" really come from the <br>Scots for "without a scratch", or is it from the French "escot"? That
<br>sort of thing.<br></font></div><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2">
<div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br><font size="2">Sandy Fleming<br><a href="http://scotstext.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://scotstext.org/</a><br></font>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I
always thought "Scot-free" was from Norse, Skotr, "tax". For example
Noregian King Olaf "Skotkonung", who was fond of raising revenues! </font></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Getting away scot-free means without any sort of cost.</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"> </font></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Paul Finlow-Bates</font></div><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2"><br></font>
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