Re: Word usage in English dialects // was Slang, curses and vulgarities
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 3, 2005, 9:59 |
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:15:27 +1100, Tristan McLeay
<conlang@...> wrote:
>Indeed, like eating a cow. The distinction is much the same :) It's
>only natural that something should fill the void left by the loss of
>the Norman-derived word beginning with p- that I can't remember.
Poulet, I suppose (a common word in Switzerland, only for the meat, not for
the animal, and of course pronounced in a Swiss fashion: /'p:ule/).
kry@s:
j. 'mach' wust
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