[lit-ideas] Re: Loch Moy "oi"
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:27:09 -0800
on 1/29/05 4:32 PM, Robert Paul at Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Now, is this Oy the Oi of David Ritchie's kinsman? I wouldn't know how to
> answer
> that.
The only possible answer is geometry, to lay down a rule and measure the
aural distance between a bobby's, "Oy, what do you think you're up to,
then?" and "My son the intellectual, all he thinks of is this kakameyme
poetry...oi." From these to an eighteenth or nineteenth century Loch Moy
"oi" may be further yet.
David Ritchie
simmering his haggis in
Portland, Oregon
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