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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 - 30 July 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_ezinsser@icon.co.za" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Maria Elsie Zinsser</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za">ezinsser@icon.co.za</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.07.29 (01) [E]</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Hi all,<br><br>Ja, Ron, busyness likes company but in between work responsibilities,<br>building onto my house and renting the extension to my nephew, feeding
<br></font><font size="2">the dogs twice daily, picking up their landmines, shop, walk, eat, sleep, laugh,<br></font><font size="2">it gets difficult to know one's brass from one's oboe!</font>
</p><p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Dankie, Mark! As Ron said 'what a save!</font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><i><font size="2">>Cognate with the English shoat, I hear, & with the same in some other Lowlands language, 'sgout'? Ron, which one?</font></i></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Ron:</font><i><font size="2">Theoretically, this ought to be *skoot in Afrikaans.<br></font></i></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">We call that a speenvarkie, I think! Unless it's the 'varksotjie' word. </font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Regards,</font></p><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg">
<p><font size="2">Elsie Zinsser</font></p></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
From: </span><span id="_user_heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</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" 2007.07.29 (01) [E]</span>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mark Dreyer wrote: </span>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">>>True, sod is a cut
of earth with the grass binding it. Even so, I am wary of euphemism,
but folk etymology if nothing else hath it that the term 'sod' in that
application is a dainty abbreviation of the word 'sodomite'. Uttered in
somilar spirit: Poor old bugger, even though he had never been to
Bulgeria, or "that way inclined": Poor old bastard, even though both
the bloke's parents were married in church - to each other.<<<br><br>There again 'bugger' might be derived quite 'properly' from Celtic 'bwg' = a hobgoblin see also 'bogie' </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">bwgwth = to frighten to scare</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> "I'll be buggered" is no
irreverent wish but a statement of fact " I'm stymied/ puzzled/can't
make it out" perhaps even 'spellbound'</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Heather</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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