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   Custos Custodum to All   
   Re: 3 Old English words   
   18 Dec 06 21:25:42   
   
   From: me@privacy.net   
      
   On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:21:56 -0000, "Walker"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"Rocky3"  wrote in message   
   >news:12l0gtticm3xm$.f3zt1vx6veuw$.dlg@40tude.net...   
   >> Hello!   
   >> I wish to translate from English to Old English (Anglo-Saxon) these words:   
   >>   
   >> "Oh my wings!"   
   >>   
   >> How can I do it? Did Anglo-Saxons use "Oh"?   
   >> "Wings" seems to be in the vocative: which is the Anglo-Saxon case?   
   >> I found "min" for "my" and "fíðru" ("fithru" if you can read the special   
   >> type) for "wings": are the right words in the right cases?   
   >> Thank you in advance.   
   >> Bye!   
   >>   
   >> Rocky3   
   >>   
   >Don't you mean Alt Platdeutch/Old Low German?   
      
   No, he doesn't.   
      
   >Old English, what on earth is that?   
      
   The direct ancestor of the language we are using just now.   
      
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