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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 - 1 May 2007 - Volume 02</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" 2007.04.28 (01) [E]
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">In message</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:57c981290704281549w2e986c7dqe4a2cddc30441dc6@mail.gmail.com">57c981290704281549w2e986c7dqe4a2cddc30441dc6@mail.gmail.com
</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">>,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Lowlands-L List <</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com">
lowlands.list@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> i,.e Reihhart/Ron writes</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">>Am I right in assuming that English and Scots are the odd men out here
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I know (from rural Northamptonshire, 40 years ago) 'Beast' as not just</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">'cattle' (singluar used for plural - "I'll get the beast in so the Vet</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">can run his eye over them"), but a very specific kind: neutered males</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">older than calves, but not fully mature (not that most of them got fully
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">mature: most were turned into beef before that.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Cheers,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Pat</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">--</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Pat Reynolds</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">It may look messy now ...</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> ... but just you come back in 500 years time (T. Pratchett).
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