[lit-ideas] Re: On Kudos
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:15:52 -0700
on 6/5/05 9:16 PM, Harold Hungerford at hh@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> If you had been an Old Englishman, living sometime between 449 and
> 1066, a milk-producing device would have been a cu (pronounced coo).
> Ah, progress.
>
> Harold Hungerford
>
When I wrote the thing that started this thread, and when I told Andy that I
had written "cow," I assumed people knew that "Cow" is still pronounced "cu"
or "coo" in some parts of Scotland.
Sorry if I was enigmatic.
O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To hear oursels as ithers hear us!
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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