Re: The Chant on the Dog's Grave

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:48:34 -0500 Padraic Brown
<pbrown@...> writes:
> >> I still have one question: since a bannock is a cake and "burn"
> is "burn",
> >> where was King Arthur during all of this?
> >
> >No, no, it was King *Alfred*, a quite different fellow, who burned
> the
> >cakes.
>
> Yes, that's what he _said_: "Arthur". And anyway, if King Alfred was
> a Good King, how could he also be an Incendiary King? Well, he _was_
> secretly a Weak King as well, so who knows?
>
> >(Seriously, "burn" in this context is almost certainly "stream".)
>
> Yes, well, that's the Scots for you - always comming up with
> Forn words for everything when there are perfectly reasonable
> words already there!
>
> Padraic.
-

Hmm... "Burn"...
There's also of course the many New York City area names of waterways
coming from Dutch, with the word _kill_ in them:
ex. Arthur Kill
    Kill Van Kull

(both of which separate Staten Island from Jersey)


-Stephen (Steg)
 "no! sleep! till brooklyn!"
     ~ the beastie boys

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