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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:clarkedavid8@aol.com">clarkedavid8@aol.com</a></span></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="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.09.29 (01) [EN</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<div>From: Jonny <<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" target="_blank">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></div>
<div>Subject: LL-L "Literature"<br>
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Dear Lowlanners,<br>
 <br>
at the moment I'm reading "The Chronicles of Clovis" by SAKI (H. H.
Munro) (I try it in English, though I have to read all of it at least
twice to be able to deal with the whole of his pitchdark humor).<br>
 <br>
One of the stories is titled 'Esmè', which is the name of a hyaena.<br>
 <br>
I wonder if this name subliminally shall mean "eat me", and, if my
suspicion is correct, where did he borrough it from? If I had to invent
the same in German (slang) I should come upon something like "Essmì" -
just a hap?<br>
 <br>
Thanks in award for your answers, which may enlighten one of the darkest but finest chapters of British black humor ;-)!<br>
 <br>
Allerbest!<br>
 <br>
Jonny Meibohm<br>
Lower Saxony, Germany</div>
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It is quite a long time since I read his work, but I seem to remember
there is a ferret in one of his stories called "Sredny Vakhtar", which
is the name of a place in the Balkans. The ferret in question kills a
young boy's horrible aunt and then disappears into the bushes, never to
be seen again. The stories are funny but cruel. Munro himself was
killed in his forties in the First World War.</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>David Clarke</div>
</div><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: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"></span><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">M.-L. Lessing</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a>></span></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="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.09.29 (01) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="4">Dear Jonny,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="4">I alsways thought "Esmé" a shortening of "Esmeralda". However
it seems to be in use as a female *and* male first name.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="4">I will try and read a little of Saki myself, his works
are p.d. and it seems wort while :-)Â </font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="4">Hartlich</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="4">Marlou</font></div><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: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"></span><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Heiko Evermann</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:heiko.evermann@gmx.de">heiko.evermann@gmx.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.09.29 (01) [EN]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi Johnny,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="im"><br>
> Dear Lowlanners,<br>
><br>
> at the moment I'm reading "The Chronicles of Clovis" by SAKI (H. H. Munro)<br>
> (I try it in English, though I have to read all of it at least twice to be<br>
> able to deal with the whole of his pitchdark humor).<br>
><br>
> One of the stories is titled 'Esmè', which is the name of a hyaena.<br>
><br>
> I wonder if this name subliminally shall mean "eat me", and, if my suspicion<br>
> is correct, where did he borrough it from? If I had to invent the same in<br>
> German (slang) I should come upon something like "Essmì" - just a hap?<br>
><br>
> Thanks in award for your answers, which may enlighten one of the darkest but<br>
> finest chapters of British black humor ;-)!<br>
</div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Have a look at </span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esme" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esme</a><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><br>
Heiko</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">----------<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"></span><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);">victorie.a</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:victorie.a@home.nl">victorie.a@home.nl</a>></span></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="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.09.29 (01) [EN]<br>
</span><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Moi Jonny,</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Â De Kronieken van Clovis.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;"> </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Well, neither have I. If we even knew its sex we might give it a</span></font></p>
<pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">name. Perhaps we might call it Esmé. That would do in either case.</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Esmé is een Engelse name, <i><span style="font-style: italic;">m. vr.</span></i> Withycombe nuumt as eerste drager van dizze name:</span></font></pre>
<pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;">Esmé Stuard (1542-83) </span></font></i>6<sup>e</sup> seigneur d’Aubigny, later hertog van Lenox, nève van James de 6<sup>e</sup> van Schotland, wie zien moeder Franse was.</pre>
<pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Waarschienlijk uut ‘t latijns,<i><span style="font-style: italic;"> aestimatus </span></i>‘geacht’.</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">De name gung van de hertog aover op zien zeune en kleinzeune en kreeg daordeur vaste voet in Schotland en daorna ok in Engeland.</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Tegenswoordig wördt de name veural aan maagies egeven. Ik deinke dus daorumme, veur die hyena de name van Esmé. Kan veur beider geslachten.</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Goodgaon,</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Arend Victorie</span></font></pre><pre style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hoogeveine,</span></font></pre><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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