Re: CHAT: Humpty Dumpty (was: con-childish taunts)

BP Jonsson scripsit:

> At 07:58 +0100 19.5.1999, Raymond A. Brown wrote:
> >
> >'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.
No accident that it is the Northern dialects of English that have the word.

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John Cowan                                      cowan@ccil.org
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