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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 05 April 2007 - Volume 04</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_edsells@cogeco.ca" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ed Alexander <<a href="mailto:edsells@cogeco.ca">edsells@cogeco.ca
</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.03.07 (01) [A/D/E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
At 09:13 AM 03/07/07 -0800, Marcel Bas wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<blockquote style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" type="cite"> "According to ATF, the Scots (the inhabitants of Scotland) are the
same as the Scythians; as he explains to us, the argument that confirms
this is that the Scythians bred skot (`cattle' in Russian) [NC
2:252].<br>
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A A Zaliznyak, 'Linguistics according to A. T. Fomenko', <br>
Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 55:2 162-188, 2000"<br>
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I do wish mr Fomenko a lot of <i>Uspekhi</i> .<br>
It's amazing, how much the Scythians have led to speculations. Although
Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn (1612-1653) was the first to formulate an Indo
European language hypothesis
(<a href="http://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Zuerius_van_Boxhorn" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Zuerius_van_Boxhorn
</a>), he thought that the Scythians were the people that we now refer to
as speakers of Proto-Indo-European. Whereas they were one of the many,
later Indo-Iranian tribes. </blockquote><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Perhaps the final proof of the link between the Scythians and the Scots
lies in their complete obsession with time. In my last posting, I
mentioned the great Scythian Dionysius Exiguus (Dennis the Little), to
whom we owe our current year numbering system. However, perhaps the
greatest European promoter of this new system was the great Northumbrian
(hence, Scot) the Venerable Bede. As further proof (and a
connection to Canada, Marcel), is the great, but unheralded Canadian
Sanford Fleming (not to be confused with the great Lowlands contributor
of the same name), whose proposal regarding standard time zones at the
Prime Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. in 1884, was
accepted. His obsession with this issue started when he missed a
train due to the hopelessly confusing train schedules prior to standard
time. We might also refer to the dark history of Freemasonry in
Scotland which led somewhat circuitously to the founding of the Royal
Society under Charles II, who primarily needed a better clock so his navy
could figure out where they were, longitudinally speaking.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg">
<br>
Ed Alexander
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