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From: Pat Reynolds <pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2008.03.30 (03) [E]

In message
<57c981290803300953h66c0aacfpaf39a625d2e0ae7d at mail.gmail.com>,
Lowlands-L List <lowlands.list at GMAIL.COM> (i.e. Heather) writes
>Who was it who said in a poem something about "the rolling English
>cattle made the rolling English roads

Were you thinking of Chesterton:

Before the Roman came to Rye
And out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made
The rolling English road.

it ends
'For there is good news yet to hear
And fine things to be seen
Before we get to paradise
By way of Kensal Green'.

The whole poem is probably incomprehensible without footnotes.  Kensal
Green, for example, is a large cemetery.

Best wishes to all,

Pat
--
Pat Reynolds

It may look messy now ...
        ... but just you come back in 500 years time (T. Pratchett).

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From: Tom Carty <cartyweb at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2008.03.30 (03) [E]

In Irish, road is bothar, literally cow (bo) path (way). You go down
highways, though they may be in vallys - should they be lowways?!!! :-) and
we walk on cow-ways!!!

Tom Carty

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2008.03.30 (03) [E]

> 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"

I think it was G K Chesterton: "The rolling English drunkard made the
rolling English road", as I remember it.

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/

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