<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 03 November 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,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,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: Ted < <a href="mailto:tedshore@sympatico.ca">
tedshore@sympatico.ca</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: origin of 'Schore"</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Johannes de Schore is listed as living near the west cost of England in Lincolnshire. I am interested in any insight into the origins of Schore. I am not a linguist, but I have found the following information from various sources, and I'd appreciate any comments on the validity of what I have gathered:
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A Schorre is a contemporary Dutch word, meaning 'areas of brackish, shallow water usually found in coastal areas and in deltas. There are also inland marshes in arid areas where the water has a high salt level because of evaporation.' From another source, a 'Schorre' is described as a Dutch word that refers to that part of a salt marsh covered by high tides. 'Schore' is an example of a Low Saxon loanword. It is one of several words from the areas of shipping and trading which seem to be from the Middle Low Saxon language of the Hanseatic Trading League days. The Hanseatic League was an alliance of trading guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly over the Baltic Sea, to a certain extent the North Sea, and most of Northern Europe for a time in the Late Middle Ages and the early modern period, between the 13th and 17th centuries. The dominant language of trade was Mittelniederdeutsch (Middle Low German), a dialect with significant impact for countries involved in the trade, particularly the larger Scandinavian languages. Middle Low Saxon and Middle Dutch have many identical words, the separation between the two languages was not as clear at the time as it is now, and the British Isles had trading links with both Dutch/Flemish and Hanseatic traders and artisans. This means that some loanwords in English could be from either Dutch or Low Saxon origin. "shore" (suspected < _schore_'?', cf. Modern Low Saxon _Schaar(t)_ ~ _Schor(t)_ 'coast', 'coastal land','cliff', 'bluff').
</i><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks very much Lowlanders,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ted Shore </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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From: R. F. Hahn < <a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Etymology</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Welcome to the neighborhood, Ted!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">That looks like a difficult one there because of all the possibilities which you have already explored.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Let's see what folks come up with.<br><br>Middle Dutch and Middle Saxon are indeed both candidates when it comes to many Continental Germanic loans in English. Also, at the time the two languages were regarded as being on a continuum, pretty much as dialects of one language. Dutch speakers tended to refer to Middle Saxon and Early Modern Low Saxon as
<i>Oostersch</i> (Eastern), besides <i>Saksisch</i>.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">At any rate, it's great you joined us.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">