The ridiculous spate of Lute emails! Do you not recognize phrases that are used for (somewhat poetic) purposes? I use that phrase occasionally: I betray myself by writing this! Let's leave off unimportant, rollicking, fatuous, plainly unimportant affairs such as this & get on to more important matters! Timothy Swain (an old, old former lutenist who cannot help but be astonished by ridiculous matters being brought up...)
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 5:38 AM, Matthew Daillie <[1][email protected]> wrote: The posts on this forum might answer your question Rainer: [2]https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3903/19th-centur y-english-texts-occasionally-use-germanic-style-number-words-such-as Best, Matthew On 28/01/2018 11:11, Rainer wrote: Dear lute-netters, some of you certainly know (have) Peter Holman's book. I always thought that this pronunciation of numbers (as still used in German) was only used in the 17th century and before and changed a long time ago. Does anybody know when this changed (from four and twenty to twenty-four)? Rainer To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3903/19th-century-english-texts-occasionally-use-germanic-style-number-words-such-as 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
