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L O W L A N D S - L - 06 January 2009 - Volume 3<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe">
</span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Idiomatica" 2009.01.05 (04) [E]</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Heather
wrote:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">from
Heather Rendall <a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></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;">3) We even
learn the German system too with our nursery rhymes</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Sing a song
of sixpence</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Pocketful
of rye</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">FOUR AND TWENTY
blackbirds </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Baked in a
pie ......</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
An Old English system too.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">My parents
always said, when telling the time, "five-and-twenty past eight,
five-and-twenty to six" etc.  That was the only context they ever
used that construction in.</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;">I also
recall a story book I had as kid called "Four-and-Twenty Tales".</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;">Paul</span></p>

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