BULLOCKS - euph/typo/LA pron.?

[Peter A. McGraw]

Of course the Koenen is evidence for contemporary standard Dutch, and not
necessarily for the dialects.  Unfortunately I don't have a Dutch dialect
dictionary, or know anybody who speaks anything but the standard, so that's
about as fur as I kin go.  At least it was kinda fun to dust off the ol'
Koenen.

Peter Mc.

--On Wednesday, May 4, 2005 1:00 PM -0400 Laurence Horn
<laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

> At 9:49 AM -0700 5/4/05, Peter A. McGraw wrote:
>> And I'm sorry to report that my big Nederlands Koenen (M.J. Koenen & J.B.
>> Drewes, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal, 27th ed.) gives
>> no evidence of a word *pappekak, *pappenkak, *papkak or any other
>> compound of pap and kak in contemporary Dutch.  So I guess the etymology
>> of poppycock will have to be sought elsewhere.
>>
>> Peter Mc.
>
> googling "pappekak", the oft-repeated claim is that it's a
> "dialectal" Dutch term for 'soft faeces', or whatever.  So we need a
> dialect dictionary to confirm or disconfirm.  Could be an
> etymythology, I suppose, assuming an ab ovo hoax and the usual
> diaspora from there.
>
> Larry
>
>>
>> --On Wednesday, May 4, 2005 10:58 AM -0400 Laurence Horn
>> <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>>
>>>>  isn't "papekak" [sic] soft dung/excrement rather than the dried-up
>>>>  variety?  Any Dutch speakers on the list?
>>>
>>> ...and I've since acknowledged that the spelling should have been
>>> "pappekak"
>>
>>
>>
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>> Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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