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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 - 28 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_pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Pat Reynolds</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk">pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L etymology/usage [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Dear All,<br><br>Here is a nice way to while away a Sunday afternoon - help write the<br>Oxford English Dictionary:<br>
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.oed.com/bbcwordhunt/" target="_blank">http://www.oed.com/bbcwordhunt/</a><br><br>There are many words for which the etymology is unknown (e.g. bonkers,
<br>prat, shaggy dog story), and where readers here may be able to point to<br>it being a loan in from another Lowlands language. Those of you who are<br>translators may recall the first time you met words such as shell suit,
<br>mucky pup or tosser.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Pat<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg"><br><br>--<br>Pat Reynolds<br><br>It may look messy now ...<br> ... but just you come back in 500 years time (T. Pratchett).
<br><br>----------<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Pat Reynolds</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk">pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.04.28 (01) [E]
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">In message<br><<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:57c981290704281549w2e986c7dqe4a2cddc30441dc6@mail.gmail.com">
57c981290704281549w2e986c7dqe4a2cddc30441dc6@mail.gmail.com</a>>,<br>Lowlands-L List <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a>> i,.e Reihhart/Ron writes
<br></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span class="q">>Am I right in assuming that English and Scots are the odd men out here<br><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
I know (from rural Northamptonshire, 40 years ago) 'Beast' as not just<br>'cattle' (singluar used for plural - "I'll get the beast in so the Vet<br>can run his eye over them"), but a very specific kind: neutered males
<br>older than calves, but not fully mature (not that most of them got fully<br>mature: most were turned into beef before that.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Pat<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg">--
<br>Pat Reynolds<br><br>It may look messy now ...<br> ... but just you come back in 500 years time (T. Pratchett).<br><br>----------<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_ezinsser@icon.co.za" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Elsie Zinsser <<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za">ezinsser@icon.co.za</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.04.28 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hi all,</span>
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<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mark, all,
the Afrikaans equivalent is 'dier' rather than 'deer'.</span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="FR">Regards,</span></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="FR">Elsie Zinsser <span><br></span></span></font></span></p>
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