Lowland Scots

[Salikoko S. Mufwene]

At 04:32 PM 3/6/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Oops!  O.k., so I defined "Europe" rather broadly.  ("Greater Europe"
>maybe?)

       This correction won't fix the problem... not to the eyes of Black
South Africans (geographically) and perhaps not of the Africaners
themselves (culturally). The Boers coined the term "Afrikan(d)er" to
distinguish themselves from the Europeans, didn't they?


>--On Thursday, March 6, 2003 4:24 PM -0800 "Peter A. McGraw"
><pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU> wrote:
>
>>languages such as Dutch, Low Saxon, Afrikaans, Scots and others spoken
>>in lowland areas of Europe
>
>
>
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>                               Peter A. McGraw
>                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
>                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu

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