LL-L: "Old English" LOWLANDS-L, 05.MAY.2000 (04) [E]

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From: Felix Huelsey [huelseyf at Smail.Uni-Koeln.de]
Subject: LL-L: "Old English" LOWLANDS-L, 03.MAY.2000 (03) [E]

Dear Lowlanders,

Ian James Parsley wrote on 3 May 2000:

>(...) Of course
>Southern Ulster is considered by many the most conservative of the lot - as
>with the joke of two women going past a music shop: the first points to a
>picture and says 'that's Nat King Cole' and the second says 'Oh? Who is it
>then?' The 'nat' there will be familiar to you from Chaucer, of course.

I think I am missing something funny here. Could someone explain please?

Many thanks!

Felix Huelsey
Cologne, Germany

huelseyf at smail.uni-koeln.de

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