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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 - 13 September 2007 - Volume 05</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: Gloria Cauble <
<a href="mailto:glorid@yahoo.com">glorid@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2007.09.12 (05) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Hi, I'm Gloria from the Southeastern U.S.</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Consider
"bat" as a root concept in English. My simple little
dictionary suggests a Celtic origin for this concept, although the
entry for "battery" reads etmylogically as Gary Davenport posted.</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">If
"bat" were a root concept, then what might it mean? For me, it
means repeatedly hitting something with what I usually think of as
a side arm approach to the hitting, like cats do, or American baseball
does. I think of "batting," a term for the stuffing of quilts or a
term used for housing insulation here and I wonder how it was
originally created from cotton or wool then extended to fiberglass.
And I thought of "batten" which I think of as securing in place,
protecting against a storm. Then "batter" like cake batter, and I
think of the motion that a person does when they mix it. Which can
mean, associated with "bat" or one that does "bat," like "teacher."</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">And
then I think again of "bat." What is it really? Is it the hitting?
Is it the array of strokes? or is it this with an end? For me it is
that hitting, in an arrayed pattern, but to a purpose, maybe to
keep something strong at bay, like even hunger or cold. In terms of
"battle", a place with weapons or soldiers combine power and array
would be a "bat+ter+y". A power store. And in this logic, the "-y" is
a place designation, like "nursery" or "pharmacy." Well, anyhow, I'm
all about English roots these days, and somehow "bat" just did't sound
like a Latin derived thing, particularly when English contains other
"Consonant + -at" words, like "mat" "fat" "rat" "tat", but who knows.</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
well, thanks, and hello</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">gloria<br><br>----------<br><br><span>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Etymology<br><br>Hi, Gloria, and welcome to the List and to its vocal component! I'm happy to see you took the plunge!<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br></span><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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