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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"> </font></p><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">From: </font><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#5b1094">Pat Reynolds</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:pat@caerlas.co.uk">pat@caerlas.co.uk</a></span></span><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><br>






    Subject: </font><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2011.05.25 (03) [EN]</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br><br></span><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">

<span>Reinhard/Ron asked</span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span>“I wonder why in some Low Saxon dialects the word for "superstition" (Dutch <i>bijgeloof</i>, Limburgish <i>biegelouf</i>, German <i>Aberglauben</i>) is <i>Höhnergloven</i>
 [ˈhœʏnɐˌglɔʊvm̩] ~ [ˈhɔɪnɐˌglɔʊbm̩], literally "chicken belief". Is the
 reference to "chickens" meant to devalue the belief, or is there an old
 custom behind it all?<br>“</span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">

<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I am reminded of “Mother Goose” stories, which I think is a translation from French.</span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Why poultry should be credited with folk tales and belief, I know not.</span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">

<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Cheers,</span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">

<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Pat</span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">

<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">---</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Amienne;color:black">Pat Reynolds</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Amienne;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">

<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Amienne;color:#943634">It may look messy now ...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Amienne; color: rgb(148, 54, 52);">         ... but just you come back in 500 years time (T. Pratchett).</span></p>

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