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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);">Mark Dreyer</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</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 "Names" 2010.03.18 (02) [EN]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<div><font size="2">Dear
John:</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> </font></div>
<div><font size="2">Subject:
LL-L
"Names"<br><br></font><font size="2">You say:</font></div><div class="im">
<div><font size="2">Well,
people from Shetland are not normally referred to as
'Shelties'.</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> </font></div>
</div><div><font size="2">Well, I
beg to differ with you there, but times change, & usages too. My
sources may
be two generations or so your elders. You talk about merchant ships -
well, when once all trade & transport abroad went by sea, the sea
was the
Shelties' natural habitat. I have heard a couple of your Shelties of the
older
persuasion note that once there were more Shelties standing on water
than there
stood on land. & they manned the vessels of ship-owners &
masters of all
the nations of the North Sea. One was glad to take their articles. You
could
rely on them.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Well I
shall go back to Sheltie, until you come up with an alternative you are
willing to name. So also your Sheltie tongue</font><font size="2"> Yours is not
a dainty people. Do not be dainty about your speech. & nor should
you shyly
withold input as a mere expatriate. Even today there are more Shelties
off
the Islands than there are on them. Am I telling you something you don't
know? I
wish you could understand Jaqueline's letter on the poem by Neeltje
Maria Min,
there's marrow in that...</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">You
object that the adjectives associated with Scotland are very
complicated!
Conceded: I don't propose to simplify them. There is enough Scot in me
& in
my race to cherish even the complixities, do you have a problem with
that?</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Ja;
well: Bob he may be, but nobody calls him so. Our Tait answers to his
surname, even to his family, even to his wife. Only we pronounce it
'Tuit' which
means spout. It is a jocular term for a baby boy, as opposed to the
other sort,
& implies smallmess. Tait is BIG. Nothing feminine about him either,
nor
particularly dour.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Wishing
you the same,</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> </font></div>
<div><font size="2">I
remain</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Yrs,</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Mark.<br></font></div></div></div><font size="2"><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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