Re: The Chant on the Dog's Grave
| From: | Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 27, 2001, 14:58 |
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:39:23 -0500, John Cowan <jcowan@...>
wrote:
>Jeff Jones wrote:
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>> I still have one question: since a bannock is a cake and "burn" is
>> "burn", where was King Arthur during all of this?
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>No, no, it was King *Alfred*, a quite different fellow, who burned the
>cakes.
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>(Seriously, "burn" in this context is almost certainly "stream".)
Sorry, you're perfectly correct. I meant to say Albert the Great, of course.
Jeff