[muglo] Re: "kettle of fish" [VERY OFF]
- From: Paul Thomas <paul_thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 20:40:31 -0500
A good example of dialects is:
The word pronounced 'look' has at least 3 meanings that I know of in
different parts of England - I forget the details now:
'look' as to look at something
'luck' which we all hope for and
'Luke' the apostle
all pronounced as 'look'
Which reminds me of a joke about the Frenchman trying to learn English.
He had struggled through things like 'through', 'thought', 'though',
etc. and one day, passing one of the large London theatres, he saw on
the large placard "Pygmalion pronounced Success" - I give up he
said......
Enjoy
Paul
On Feb 9, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>> Does anyone know when the earliest English dictionary was created? It
>> would
>> seem that the answer to this question may perhaps be very old, if the
>> term
>> kentle distorted into kettle, with respect to fish. A very
>> linguistically
>> uncritical population might make the shift quite easily over a
>> generation o=
>> r
>> two, if indeed there was a shift at all.
>
> We still have words that change meaning or have a meaning added within
> 20 or 30 years (though, without the discipline of the written word I
> imagine that languages can evolve even faster... even in
> pronounciation I can hear a significant difference between Canadian
> English, and ESPECIALLY American English from the 1950s to today).
>
> Eric.
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