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[OM] Re: [OT] Vowels

Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Vowels
From: "Dave B" <david.w.bell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:11:21 -0000
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 9:44 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Vowels


>
> Much of what makes Scots-English vocabulary different from English-English
> is just that, French words borrowed into Scots-English.  EG "A _gigot_ of
> lamb can be carved on an _ashet_".
>
> Mind you there are borrowings from other languages too - "I threw a cloot
at
> the clegg", which is possibly equally unintelligble to an English-English
> speaker.
>
> --
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Andrew Fildes
> Sent: 01 December 2004 07:11
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Vowels
>
>
> --snip
>
> The blend of the Scots and French is simply too horrible to contemplate.
> AndrewF
>
> --snip
>
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