Holy Mackerel
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on: “Anglish”
I've been living in the United Kingdom long enough to know h...
on: “Anglish”
Right, you need to pick and choose whose advice you heed. I...
on: “Anglish”
That's about right. I was under the impression that this wa...
on: You’ve got another think/thing coming
I can understand both sides. It seems that the 'think' argu...
on: “Anglish”
*". . . a conversation wherein after . . ." It must be ge...
on: “Anglish”
That reminds me of a conversation I overheard in a pub in Fi...
on: “Anglish”
Haha, sorry about the Third Reich reference, Gallitrot. I d...
on: “Anglish”
For me, this is just an exercise in etymology and an appreci...
on: “Anglish”
I meant to write, "the beauty of a language is NOT measured ...
on: “Anglish”
That's more or less what I was getting at in my earlier post...
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Aye, I agree. The Scots and Northern English dialects are t...
on: “Anglish”
Language has long been a function of social class stratifica...
on: “Anglish”
I'd like to bring up the word 'shark' and its mysterious ori...
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I s'pose the bridge is the meaning of 'imagination'. Our En...
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This reMINDS me of something. I seem to remember from Icela...
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The words 'hearsome' and 'hearsomeness' can still be found i...
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I love the word 'addle'. The etymology given by Oxford is, ...
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Aye, 'Cymru' is the Welsh word for Wales which shares its ro...
on: “Anglish”
What with the Scottish Unraveling (Scottish Devolution? < La...
on: “Anglish”
In Scots, in addition to 'tae frain' we also have 'tae speir...
on: “Anglish”
I've always like the word 'wlite'. We've lost all those goo...
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http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CqXCPtttljYC&pg=PR19&lpg=...
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I do like 'wordtide' for 'tense'. The Dutch word for verb i...
on: “Anglish”
Ah I see. I imagine the noun 'gefræge' took on the sense of...
on: “Anglish”
Gefrain I would imagine comes from 'gefrignan', 'gefrægn', '...
on: “Anglish”
As you're talking about 'wale' I might bring up the Scots la...
February 26, 2013, 7:04pm • 0 vote
on: “Anglish”
I s'pose that the -ize/-ise disparity is ultimately the same...