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| elvisrules Tetraglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5469 days ago 286 posts - 390 votes  Speaks: French, English*, Dutch, Flemish Studies: Lowland Scots, Japanese, German | Message 9 of 13 08 December 2009 at 12:27am | IP Logged | ||
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A lot of these words and more can be found in Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary, available on Archives.org
http://www.archive.org/details/JamiesonScottishDictionary There is also an influence of Norse on Gaelic. There was an Icelandic speaker on a Scottish Gaelic course with me and he kept on remarking on the many similarities between animal and topographical vocabulary. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Marikki Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5495 days ago 130 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Spanish, Swedish Studies: German | Message 10 of 13 14 December 2009 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | ||
'Howk' sounds remotely like 'hacka' ( 'to dig with a hoe' ) to me. According to Encyclopedia Britannica Online a hoe is "one of the oldest tools of agriculture, a digging implement consisting of a blade set at right angles to a long handle". Maybe doing 'hacka' a lot makes people 'hacky'? Edited by Marikki on 14 December 2009 at 6:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| quetzacoatl Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5696 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 11 of 13 09 January 2010 at 4:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I know this is an old thread but....
I always figured us more Celtic and Old English than Scandinavian apart from in a few words. I'm pretty sure in a program I watched "The Face of Britain" they found very little influence from Scandinavia in our Gene Pool compared to say Yorkshire. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5464 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 12 of 13 09 January 2010 at 9:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm a Geordie too, and I've always wondered where "canny" got its meaning from. In standard English it means "crafty" or "cunning", but in the North East we use it to mean "cute", "nice", "friendly", or simply "good". As far as I know, it doesn't have this meaning anywhere else.
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4828 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 13 of 13 19 September 2011 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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The first time I overheard a group of Norwegians talking excitedly to each other (it was after the last-ever(?) London concert of the Norwegian band "a-ha", they sounded to me exactly like a bunch of Geordies. It took me a while to realise they were not speaking Geordie, but a Scandinavian language, and I put two and two together.
We later went to Oslo, for the last-but-one Oslo concert (tickets for the last one had sold out before we could order them). This was my first visit to Norway. The "Geordie effect" was less apparent, but still there to some extent. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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