LL-L: "Phonology" LOWLANDS-L, 31.JAN.2000 (01) [E]

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From: Family Lindley [john at lindley-york.freeserve.co.uk]
Subject: LL-L: "Phonology" LOWLANDS-L, 30.JAN.2000 (02) [E]

As I have a passing interest in place names I thought I might mention
that an old form of Grassington (a small market town in the Yorkshire
Dales) was Garsington.

John Lindley
Wigginton
York (UK)

| >Can anyone think of other words that are likewise dissimilar as the result
| >of a permutation (interchange of letters) in two or more Lowlandic words?
|
| The word I'm having problems with remembering right at the moment in
| Dutch is 'honderd' (English 'hundred') but this is due to the older
| ending being 'ered', which English reduced one way, and Dutch another.

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