USAGE: SV: USAGE: "thole" vs. "dree"
| From: | Michael Fors <micke@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 10, 2003, 23:17 |
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Från: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM]
Skickat: lö 2003-01-11 00:04
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Ämne: USAGE: "thole" vs. "dree"
I found out today that Scots has two verbs corresponding to English "endure,
put up with":
thole: to put up with something because one has no choice
dree: to put up with something as a choice
thole... It looks alot like the Swedish word "tåla" [""to:la]
Vocabularists may be interested in this contrast. I found it at
http://www.fleimin.demon.co.uk/Bletherskite/Shudder_At_The_Niffer.htm
a page of Scots prescriptivism written in Scots.
The phrase "dree one's weird", therefore, means not merely to endure one's
fate, but to *choose* to endure one's fate.
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