to google/should be

colkitto colkitto at ROGERS.COM
Tue Nov 20 14:09:03 UTC 2007


> It may be worth noting that in Welsh you can also find the reverse pattern 
> of relexification, i.e. Welsh structures with English lexicon.  Examples I 
> recall hearing include 'y favourite ploy Bennett' [Bennett's favourite 
> ploy] and 'tair chops o lamb' [three lamb chops], though since Welsh 
> numerals are followed by the singular, the plural ending may be 
> interpreted as a structural anglicism.  It may also be the case that some 
> speakers replace the syntactically and structurally complex higher Welsh 
> numerals with their simpler English counterparts.

on the radio news in Gaelic people often read out the years in English, so 
you might suddenly hear, e.g., nineteen seventy-seven, in the middle of a 
stream of Gaelic

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