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From: Tom Carty <cartyweb at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Words" 2008.03.30 (02) [E]

Where most is used as in the song given below, it would be preceded by an '
mark indicating the word was almost. It would be an invokation of poetic
licenece to keep the beat of the line on the same pattern as the music
and/or other lines, and not used in normal speech, in Ireland anyway.

I know the Yanks do things a bot different...

Tom Carty

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: LL-L "Words" 2008.03.30 (02) [E]

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Words

> Thanks for the donations, Sandy. Could you elaborate on the favorites,
> just a sentence or three each? We publish those in short prose. (I
> take it "soukie-blaw" literally means "suck-'n-blow". Brilliant!)

smirr: when you see sheets of fine rainfall blown into shimmering
curtains by the wind, this is called "smirr".

rummlegumption: "Rummle" means to rummage around for something.
"Gumption" might be translated as "get-up-and-go". These come together
to give the idea of a person who is able to find things out and and sort
things out. It could be translated as "common sense".

soukie-blaw: In Scots, "suck" is "souk" and "blow" is "blaw", these come
together to make "soukie-blaw" the word for a "mouth organ".

I hope that'll do. Feel free to edit it about a bit or ask more.

> Oh, and thanks for the photie, Sandy. I suggest that next time you
> kick it up (pun intended) by wearing your kilt.

It wasn't a well-thought-out plan!  :)

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From: Mike Morgan <mwmosaka at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Words" 2008.03.30 (02) [E]

In order to facilitate the April 14th filing deadline (for words NOT
taxes), I am posting to the list rather than personally to R/R: (nota
bene : today is OUR April 15th: all our accounts are due, etc. So,
rather than pressure out, I thought I would ignore it and do something
fun ... for an hour or so anyway!)

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** False Friends: **
Without
Scottish Standard English : outside of: opposite of in
non-Scottish Standard English : opposite of with

Alphabets
Indian English : letters of the alphabet
Standard English : alphabets of different languages

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** (Shoecabbage: **

Cock(a)roach
Hawaiian Creole English (aka Pidgin / Dakine) : steal, sneak away with
(also means 'cockroach' in its Standard English meaning)
Standard English : largish black bug, of which there are "choke" in Hawaii

girigiri
Hawaiian Creole English (aka Pidgin / Dakine) : cowlick
Japanese ぎりぎり : just barely, cutting it close

Make (: visual / orthographic shoecabbage)
Hawaiian Creole English (aka Pidgin / Dakine) : dead (pronounced ma:ke)
Standard English : create, etc (pronounced me:k)

Alas (: visual / orthographic shoecabbage)
Hawaiian Creole English (aka Pidgin / Dakine) : testicles (pronounced a:las)
Standard English : exclamation of regret (pronounced alae:s)

Choke
Scots : cheek (also spelled chowk)
Hawaiian Creole English (aka Pidgin / Dakine) : very many, a lot
Standard English : "wat happen wen yu no can catch air"

tako
Hawaiian Creole English (aka Pidgin / Dakine) : octopus (also in Japanese
American English : taco; flour or corn tortilla rapped around any
variety of cooked things (pronounced /tako/) (also Mexican Spanish
Swahili : buttock (singlular; the plural is matako)

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** Words & expressions I love: **

Hawaiian Creole English (aka Pidgin / Dakine)
brok da mout (broke the mouth) : onolicious : delicious
stink eye : dirty look
nocanic (play on 'mechanic' with which it rhymes) : person who always
says "no can", someone who gives up easily, someone without any
confidence in their own abilities (I love the word, NOT what it stands
for)

South Asian Muslim English:
inshallah : god willing (As in the Bangaladesh Airlines announcement
heard towards the end of every flight: "We will, inshallah, be landing
in 10 minutes."

Japanese
ぎりぎり girigiri : (see above)

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** Vive la Difference **

Rubber
American English : condom
British Englhis : (pencil) eraser

PS My favorite (appropriate) misreading of a sign was the following
(seen in the neighboring town of Thane

GO SLOW
WORK IN
PROGRESS

read as: Go! Slow work in progress.

PPS Reinhard's submission of "HUMP" reminds me that I meant to take a
picture of the sign for speed bumps when i was in Sweden last summer
... the Engklih reading of the Swedish was quite amusing. Now though i
don't even remember what it was, JUST that it was amusing. Does anyone
out there know what the Swedish is for "speed bump" (aka "Hump")?

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Words

Thanks, guys. I'll add the goodies when I get a chance.

I guess we'll be adding shoecabbages then. But let's stick with only some of
the most delicious ones. Also, let's refer to "shoecabbages" but not use it
as a title. Even though I don't think Teresa would sue us (for I helped her
a lot in the early days) I don't want to encroach on her territory.

What would be a good title?

Mike, I take it that despite the goofing off you managed to "do the
needful." ;-)

Cheerio!
Reinhard/Ron

P.S.: Mike, I take it "R/R" is not the same as "R & R".
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