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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 23 December 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>
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: Pat Reynolds <<a href="mailto:pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk">pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk</a>> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Contests" 2007.12.22 (04) [E]</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;">In message</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:57c981290712221547s77f6d9daxdfc0625d62e5432f@mail.gmail.com">
57c981290712221547s77f6d9daxdfc0625d62e5432f@mail.gmail.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">>,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Lowlands-L List <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM">lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> i.e. Sandy Fleming writes:
</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;">>So my entry in the Most Pointless Contest Contest is...
</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;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
>"To nominate the place name that sounds silliest to speakers of the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">>indigenous language".
</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;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
>And if this entry wins the contest contest, I thereafter nominate the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">>entry to the winning contest (after considering the village of "Velvet
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">>Bottom" in Somerset and "Little Heck" in Yorkshire) to be "Bad Homburg</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">>Way", in Exeter, Devon.</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;">
I like this contest! I would wish to submit "Husbands Bosworth" and</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">(pulls out trump card) "Buttocks Booth". Both in my home county of
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Northamptonshire.</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;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Season's Greetings at the Year's Turning,</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;">Pat</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;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pat Reynolds</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;">It may look messy now ...</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> ... but just you come back in 500 years time (T. Pratchett).
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: "<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">
heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">
Re: LL-L "Contests" 2007.12.22 (04) [E]</span><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sandy wrote </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"So my entry in the Most Pointless Contest Contest is...<br><br>"To nominate the place name that sounds silliest to speakers of the<br>indigenous language".
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Can I enter
with the reverse? One that sounds fine to the native speaker but for
someone who knows a bit of Latin and English is v funny. It still makes
us giggle some 37 years later.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When I was
first married we lived in North Wales. Next to our cottage was a
bridge, which was called Mill Bridge in Welsh i.e. Pont Felin</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">One day a
large lorry tried to cross it and got stuck. In trying to reverse back
off the bridge, the driver managed to demolish one whole of one side!
The Police quickly closed the road and put up notices</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">DANGER ROAD CLOSED PONT FELIN</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">which of course is exactly what it had done: the Bridge "fell in" the river</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Heather [Randall]<br></p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">
wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">Re: LL-L "Contests" 2007.12.22 (04) [E]</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: Sandy Fleming <<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org" target="_blank">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: LL-L "Language attitudes" 2007.12.22 (01) [E]</span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d"><br>"To nominate the place name that sounds silliest to speakers of the<br> indigenous language".
<br><br></div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sandy Fleming</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">
http://scotstext.org/</a></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;">----------</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: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Contest </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<li>Most misnamed language</li></ul><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;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
1. I'll have to start searching Google Maps for some candidates Sandy!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">2. English! Hardly any of its speakers are! Spanish would run a close second in that regard.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><br>Paul Finlow-Bates</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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