<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 - 11 September 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><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(121, 6, 25); 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">
<<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "History" 2007.09.10
(05) [D/E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Elsie Zinsser</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
wrote:</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="q"><br><br>
<p><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-ZA">Some German names found in the Cape. </span></font></p></span>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-ZA">On
the same kind of theme but closer to home ( here in the UK I mean) does
anyone know of any German language influences on Irish / Irish English
left by the Protestant settlers from the Rheinland Pfalz c 1706/7?</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-ZA">The
only thing I have ever come across is a folk tale heard in Northern
Ireland / Ulster about Aspittel, who had to look after the house and
was bullied by her 2 older sisters... and eventually of course wins the
hand of the prince!</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-ZA">In English Cinderella and German Aschenputtel</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-ZA">Names still abound: my family's was Schwitzer or Schweitzer from Newcastle West & Croome in Limerick.
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<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-ZA">Heather</span></font></p><p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="black" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-ZA">----------<br><br>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: History<br><br>Heather <span style="font-style: italic;">
et al</span>.,</span></font></p><p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Here's an additional Lowlands note:</p><p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The Northern Low Saxon name for Cinderella is Aschenpüüstersch (['aSnpy:st3S]).
<br><br>My etymological stab at it is that it means "ash blower" (with the feminine ending <span style="font-style: italic;">-sch < -sche</span>).<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br><font color="black" size="2">
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