LL-L "Language use" 2008.08.08 (02) [E/S]

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From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Language use" 2008.08.07 (01) [S?]

Dear Ron:

*Subject:* LL-L "Language use"

Aw, naw! The bogles, doolies an aw kynds o crowlies hiv come out tae
squattle an sprauchle an slabber aw ower the Leid! Thare's a batch o us the
nou.  Luik, Sandy, whit ye've gart us dae tae pruive wir pynt! A vyce o
reason ochtae stap the bletheration.

Beaut!

Mark

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From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Language use" 2008.08.07 (04) [E/S]

Dear Sandy:

Subject: LL-L "Language use"

> From: Mark Dreyer

> Whatever befalls hereafter, a golden age has passed from that parcel
> of land, & out into family memories.

I'll not try my half-cocked leid in the company of the eloquent, but know I
warm to yours.

I jalouse fae what fell yer faither a puffadder's a sicht waur than
onything we hae in this kintra, then?

What, have you no adders? Mind you yours are reputed to make you very sick.
Ours are *supposed* to kill.

I mind my auld auntie that flittit tae New Guinea tellin me aboot her
man spyin a snake lyin on their bed ae nicht: he raxed his gun and shot
it, syne rakin aboot canny amang the feathers fae the matress on the
fluir, aa he could finnd wis the belt aff her frock, aa shot tae bits.

When in doubt, shoot. My Grandfather let loose at what turned out to be a
bit of braided copper battery cable, & still he called it a shot well spent.
Now New Guinea has some fine killers in the krait line, & king cobra, & the
daffodil-yellow sea snake among many. Her man did wisely & well; snakes here
also love a fine warm bed.

Whan I wis a bairn, me an my cousin wis up the hills wi his faimly in
the caur, an we - juist the twae o us - teuk it intae oor heids tae
climb Lammer Law, the hieghest hill in the Lammermuirs. We didna think
muckle o'd an juist set oot athoot tellin onybody, but afore lang we wis
startin tae see this wis mair o a hill than we'd ever tried afore. We'd
be climbin up an up, an juist as we thocht we wis comin ower the snab,
here wad anither muckle stey brae no juist ryce up afore us an we'd sich
tae oorsels an girn a bit, an syne ca on. Heigher up we fand oorsels
knee-deep in thon orangey-broun vegetation that the Lammermuirs taks
their name fae, an every nous an thens we'd chance on a nottice sayin,
"Beware of Adders".

We wechtit oor chances an ca'd on again, an at lang an last landit at
the tap, an what did we finnd thare but a muckle bing o stanes
thwaethree times heigher than oorsels. We'd never heard o a cairn afore
an we wis richt dumfoonert that onybody wad cairt sic a muckle bing o
stanes aa the road up sicna hill an juist ding them doun thare an awa
again.

Weel, we got up on the tap o the cairn an teuk a leuk roond aboot us.
Thare tae the sooth the war naething but hills an hills an hills: the
Lammermuirs an the Cheviots cowdlin awa as faur as a body could see. Tae
the north wis the Firth o Forth an the Paps o Fife that we kent weel
eneuch, but syne we saw that the war hills ayont the Paps, something
we'd never a thocht on. An awa tae the north-west, atween the Campsies
an the Ochils, we could see ane or twae faurawa, black hills that stuid
oot heigher than the ither twae nearer ranges, that we doutit wis the
heilands. An tae the east ayont Dumpender an the Bass Rock, the war
nocht tae be seen but watter.

We made oor wey doun in the knawledge that the warld wis a gey muckle
place, an fand my cousin's faimly picnickin awa an spierin wis we no
hungert? An syne it turns oot that they didna credit we'd climbed Lammer
Law ava, no til we mentioned the cairn, onywey!

Youth, youth!

It wis years efter whan me an a freend wis oot runnin on a hot summer's
day alang the side o a canal an vernear ran richt ower the tap o a
muckle adder that wis lyin thare sunnin itsel, I at last an lang saw the
danger we wis in up thon brae aa thae years back, but whether that wad a
stopped us, I dinna ken!

An that's aboot the sum o my experience wi snakes: I chanced intae ane
but it got oot my road! I'm howpin yer faither'll be in fine fettle
again afore lang.

Amen to that, & this missal gaes right awa' til my Lowlands-List
ledger. Mony thanks.

Mark

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From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Language use" 2008.08.07 (04) [E/S]

Just a few days ago young girl in Southern England got bitten, the first
case in years apparently.  She's OK though, you have to have a weak heart or
some other physical disorder for an adder bite to kill you. Somebody I knew
reckoned it was like extremely bad flu - every muscle ached, headache,
nausea etc. Cleared up in about 2 days.

As ever with wildlife, they have a lot more to fear from us than the other
way round.

Paul

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