Re: CHAT: Humpty Dumpty (was: con-childish taunts)
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 22, 1999, 19:25 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> BP Jonsson scripsit:
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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',
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> > It is also perfectly good Scandinavian for "stream", except that no
> > Scandinavian language spells the word quite like that nowadays.
>
> No accident that it is the Northern dialects of English that have the word.
Hmm, that's interesting, because I was expecting it to be more
West-Germanic than that. Modern German has "der Bach", which
underwent the expected soundchange /k/ --> /x/.
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