Re: RV: Old English
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 31, 2000, 16:03 |
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BP Jonsson wrote:
> Good thing we Gothenburgers are so popular everywhere! ;-)
ObScure: Ovid wasn't too happy during his sojourn among your countrymen,
as I recall, but he made some good poetry of it.... Another
good poet, that 19th Century German Romantic (Sein oder Nichtsein, das ist
hier die Frage, etc.) made a good pun about "Ovid among the Goths" but now
that "Goth" has acquired the spelling pron. /goT/ in English rather than
the historic /go:t/, it doesn't work any more... pity.
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