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===============================================<br></font></div><font size="2"><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(121, 6, 25);">Roger Hondshoven</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:rhondshoven@yahoo.com">rhondshoven@yahoo.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 "Language use" 2010.03.08 (03) [EN]</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 remember that in the 40ties and 50ties my father used too say in a
jocular fashion </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">dittenendatten </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">when
he meant </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">dates</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">. It always
struck me as a funny combination of the French </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">dattes</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> and Dutch </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">dit. </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I
don't think he invented </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">this
comical word, though</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I have
never heard anybody else using it in Tienen. But then </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">dadels </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">are not exactly the kind of
subject that would drive young fellows wild or that would belong to
their everyday parlance.</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;">Kind regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</font><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"> </font></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Roger
Hondshoven</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Diest (East-Brabant)
Belgium</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></font><div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">===================================================<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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