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   From: walker@btinternet.com   
      
   "Sober Scotsman"  wrote in message   
   news:op.tmodl8zh26m2qc@62-30-181-114.cable.ubr06.edin.blueyonder.co.uk...   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >    
      
   Actually, now that the manufacturing industries are moving to under   
   developed countries there is less industrial pollution over the Pennines, so   
   it should be possible to distill good Northern English whisky in Northern   
   England again.   
      
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