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L O W L A N D S - L - 31 October 2008 - Volume 04<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Etymology"</span><br>
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Beste Jonny, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">You wrote:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;">today I learned the Dutch word 'duivenmelker', E:
'pigeon fancier', G: 'Brieftauben-Züchter'.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px; font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Wondering
about the 'melker' ('milker') within this word I made some more investigations
and found out that they really don't milk their birds but formerly made some
good profit in making bets on them - e.g. which one would arrive as the first
one and so on. So 'money flew like milk'??</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px; font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">What's
your opinion, dear neighbours in the West? Is it the correct explanation for
the origin of the word?</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I seem to
recall that we already dealt with this question somewhere in the past. Which
doesn't mean that everything was said back then and there of course *s*.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Kind
greetings,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">Luc
Hellinckx</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br style="">
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