LL-L "History" 2009.11.06 (01) [EN]

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From: heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk <heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2009.11.05 (03) [EN]

>From Heather Rendall  heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk

Subject (I think  - still?) Lexicon

I have been reading a fascinating book about Queen Elizabeth 1st. In it the
author quotes a visiting ambassador by name of Paul Hentzner  ( a German?)
who says

" As (the Queen) went along.. she spoke very graciously, first to one and
then to another, whether foreign Ministers or those who attended for
different reasons, in English, French and Italian; for besides being skilled
in Greek, Latin and the languages I have mentioned, she is mistress of
Spanish, Scotch and Dutch."

My questions are :-

What do you think he meant by 'Scotch'? Lallans or Gaelic?

And what do you think was meant by Dutch? Is this just a convenient
translation to cover all languages from the Netherlands when this was
written in 1598 or was Dutch by this time a clearly defined language from
Flemish, Brabantish etc etc?

Or does it mean 'Deutsch' as in Pennsylvania Dutch?

best wishes to all

from Heather who was only surprised last night that another attempt to blow
up Parliament did not take place ( joke!) and who wonders how many 'guys' on
bonfires last night had the face of the local MP.

from a UK still reeling from the scandal of MPs'  expenses

•

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