Lovely snippets of lore. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----------------------------------------------------------------
----- Original Message ----- From: John Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 8:14 PM Subject: RE: English (Re: Health Warning) > What you have to remember is that the real English (the > Anglo-Saxon-Romano-British-Viking-Celtic-Pictic blend that preceded the > Normans) never stopped speaking Anglo-Saxon: that's where so many of our rudest > cuss-words come from. Typical of a conquered country, the conquered continued > to use their own language, which was considered vulgar by the conquerors, and > in time the two blended into the English that many of us now speak, where there > are often two words for the same object or action, one considered polite and > one less so. > Interestingly, Glenn's snippet of Middle English included the two words 'thi > senn', which I understood to mean 'yourself'. The expression 'thisen' is still > used in many parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire, as in the motto: > "Never do owt for nowt, an' if tha doos, do it for thisen." - a popular saying > with a former workmate of mine. > > Totally OT - sorry! > > John Coyle > Brisbane, Australia > > > On Saturday, March 16, 2002 8:30 AM, T Rittenhouse [SMTP:trittenhouse@caroli > na.rr.com] wrote: > > Yep, yep, yep William the Conqueror that's it. The passage in the book I was > > thinking about went something like this, Swineherd talking: "Why is it that > > when we have to take care of it they call it by the saxon word, but when > > they get it on the table all fixed to eat they call it by the french word". > > > > Now remember, I haven't read these books in the last 30 years or so. > > > > Ciao, > > Graywolf > > > > > And Glenn wrote, inter alia > > > > PS: One of the more intelligible bits, from the song, "Man mai longe > > > lives weene": > > > > > > Weilawei! Nis king ne queene thet ne ssel drink of deathes drench. > > > Man, er thu vall of thi bench, thi senn aquench. > > > - > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
