Re: CHAT: Humpty Dumpty (was: con-childish taunts)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 20, 1999, 18:15 |
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At 07:58 +0100 19.5.1999, Raymond A. Brown wrote:
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>'Beck' is an dialect word for "stream". The next line ended with 'neck',
It is also perfectly good Scandinavian for "stream", except that no
Scandinavian language spells the word quite like that nowadays.
/BP
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