LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 07.DEC.1999 (01) [E]

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From: Gustaaf van Moorsel [gvanmoor at cv3.cv.nrao.edu]
Subject:  LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 06.DEC.1999 (07) [E]

Reinhard wrote:

> Roger, 'rusk (bread)' (_Zwieback_ in German) is also _Ma(a)schüüt_ ~
Moschüüt_
> (plural _Ma(a)schüten_ ~ _Moschüten_) in North Saxon of Germany.  In some
> dialects, and in _De Hamborger Veermaster_, the well-known Low Saxon sea
chantey
> with an English chorus, it is _Beschüüt_ (plural _Beschüten_) in reference
to
> 'ships' biscuit'.

When we lived in Germany, my kids used to be bilingual Dutch/German.
When they occasionally did not know the German name for an obscure
Dutch word, they would Germanize it.  Therefore back then, and some-
times even now, we refer to Beschuit as 'Beschuetze'. (note how even
small children are able to apply the second Germanic sound shift.)

Gustaaf

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