LL-L "Etymology" 2007.10.28 (03) [E]

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From: "Ben J. Bloomgren" <ben.j.bloomgren at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.10.27 (02) [E]

What about a word like "huish" for house in Wessex dialects? Locals do
seem to be fond of saying that it's from Norse.

 Sandy and all,

When you say "huish", are you using the ui like the Dutch orthography uses
it, or is it pronoun ced, like my screenreader aledges, Hewish?
Ben

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From: "Ben J. Bloomgren" <ben.j.bloomgren at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "History" 2007.10.28 (03) [E]

Paul,

On a separate issue of "towns", I find it interesting that while England and
Scotland are littered with "ton" names from Anglo-Saxon tun (enclosure),
when
I look at maps of other Lowlands, and indeed Germanic, countries, I don't
see any counterparts.
Here in the US, we have tons of -ton and -town names. That's including the
variants like Wendon, Arizona and others. To me, a city is big and urban
while a town is sandwiched between a village and a city:  NOt big enough to
be either. Oh, it's a small town on the prairie.
Ben

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