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   From: Sober@glebestreet.co.scotland   
      
   On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:27:30 -0000, Walker  wrote:   
      
   > I enjoyed reading your Scots. Actually an large number of Cumbric words   
   > have   
   > been preserved in Scots and English,   
      
   No they havnae -- they've been *incorporated into* Scots an Inglis. Tae   
   say they've bin preserved disnae account fir language change. Fir an   
   example usin anither livin leid, whit about "gob", fae the Gaelic "goba".   
   It's no the same as it wis, so it hasnae bin preserved.   
      
   An ye still havnae telt me how ye can tell which Scots words are fae   
   Cumbric and which fae Pictish. Mair still could be fae Galwegian or   
   now-lost dialects of Erse or Gaelic, cos they're a ower similar tae tell   
   apart wi'out ony scriven material tae look at.   
      
   > Cumbric is as Scottish as it is Northern English,   
      
   Cumbric *wis* as Scottish. It's deid, an it's no comin back unless ye mak   
   yersel a time machine.   
      
   > By the way, concerning your , is that from Scotch or Irish.   
      
   Can ye no read? Ah dinnae drink.   
      
      
      
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