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From: heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk to me
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2008.03.29 (02) [E]

>From Heather Rendall  heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk

> I wend  I went    I have went my way home  ???????????

> ... used mostly of *cows *and drunks admittedly
*Jonny wrote :   Cows*? Have you got drunken, speaking cattle over there in
Worcestershire ;-)?

OF cows, dear Jonny!  Not BY cows!!!!!

Who was it who said in a poem something about "the rolling English cattle
made the rolling English roads"

No cow ever walks in a straight line - as proved by the single track lanes
that surround this house. There is only one small straight piece of lane and
unfortunately my house is at the end of it by a junction and the number of
vehicles that think " Aha a nice straight piece of road - now I can drive
fast" and nearly come a cropper outside our gate, is too great for comfort!
Otherwise the lanes twist and turn and wend their way from hamlet to hamlet
- just as the medieval cows did, whose tracks they are

Heather

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