[lace-chat] languages

2004-08-19 Thread Helene Gannac
From: J. Falkink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace] Re: lace-digest V2004 #256 ... As I say, if you can't speak it, don't write it!! ... Why bother, unless you get it right? Hi, Jo, I'm sending this to chat, as it's getting off subject, I think!! Jo wrote; I knew a French speaking Swiss,

Re: [lace-chat] What's the word?

2004-08-19 Thread Brenda Paternoster
On 19 Aug 2004, at 00:54, Martha Krieg wrote: There's the thou/thee/thy/thine set and the you/ye/your/yours set . Originally singular versus plural, then familiar versus formal. When egalitarianism came in, the Quakers went with thee for both singular and plural (and both nominative and

Re: [lace-chat] A strange noise

2004-08-19 Thread Brenda Paternoster
On 18 Aug 2004, at 08:44, Jean Nathan wrote: That kind of disaster doesn't happen very often here fortunately. The most notable were on the night of 15th/16th August 1952 in Lynmouth (another coastal town in the same part of the country as Boscastle) when 35 people lost their lives, and a storm

[lace-chat] Secret Pal thank-yous

2004-08-19 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hopefully most of you will have received your August packages by now. I have only been advised of one which was posted late but there are still about a dozen ackknowledgements still outstanding. So please, if you have not already done so would all the other participants please post their

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: a Swiss dilemma

2004-08-19 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
From: D.D. http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/outhouse.htm --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. To

[lace-chat] Secret pal thanks.

2004-08-19 Thread Mary Wiedermann
Hello Secre t Pal. Thank you so much for the beautiful little hedgehogs. I shall use them as spangles. Thank you also for the cute little hedgehog keyringand also for the chocolates. Of course I am watching my waistline ; and there is more to watch every day.The quarantine people seem to take a

[lace-chat] What is the word?

2004-08-19 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Here in Oz they use youse (pronounced yooze) for the plural to 'you'!!! from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] Re: What is the word?

2004-08-19 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On Aug 19, 2004, at 23:25, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote: Here in Oz they use youse (pronounced yooze) for the plural to 'you'!!! We use youse here also. But, I think it's the genitive of y'all, ie the plural version of yours... --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington,