Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alastair, There's an interesting story about Arthur Raistrick - probably the world's first industrial archaeologist, and from Yorkshire. He visited northern Norway to compare sheep farming methods with those of the Yorkshire Dales and discovered that he was more or less able to get by with Yorkshire dialect when talking to farmers who still spoke old Norwegian rather than Nynorsk. Cheers Douglas On 05.01.2010 09:01, afirkin at afirkin.com wrote: > doug, > wonderful stuff: I noticed that under L was: > > leika > > meaning "to play" > > Seems appropriate ;-) > > >> Many of the words in the Yorkshire dialect I grew up with are of Viking >> (Norse) origin, e.g. laik = to play, skep = basket, ginnel = narrow >> street or snicket (all of which I used as a child) as in "Is yower >> Martin laikin aht - wirrof darnt ginnel un off ovver to't mill to laik >> abaht in't skeps." >> >> The enormous baskets piled up outside the textile mills were great for >> playing hide and seek. >> >> There are hundreds more here: >> http://www.viking.no/e/england/e-yorkshire_norse.htm >> >> Cheers >> Douglas >> >> >> >> >>