<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 - 30 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_mrdreyer@lantic.net" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mark Dreyer <<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net
</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.04.29 (04) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Dear Pat
Reynolds</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"></span> </div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><span class="q"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"></span>
Subject: LL-L etymology/usage
[E]<br><br></span><span class="q">There are many words for which the
etymology is unknown (e.g. bonkers, <br>prat, shaggy dog story), </span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">Who could possibly not know the origin
of the shaggy dog story?</div>
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<div>Hello <span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Elsie:</span></div><span class="q">
<p><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></span>
<p><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="FR">Toegestem. Ek het ook nie die regte Engelse
spelling vir 'bees' vermeld nie, nĂȘ! Lekker onderwerp die. Kom ons wandel oor
die verwantskap van die Engels 'thatch' met Afrikaans 'dak', en gelyke
woorde tussenmekaar.</span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="FR">Groete,</span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="FR">Mark.</span></font></span></p></blockquote><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">