http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/dutch_words/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Tue, 21 May 2013 16:04:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/dutch_words/#comment-148261 mollymooly Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:58:56 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2394#comment-148261 "mitching" school is still common in Ireland. “mitching” school is still common in Ireland.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/dutch_words/#comment-148152 Wander Frota Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:02:10 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2394#comment-148152 I cannot but agree with you 100% that Low German, Dutch and Norse are important to the development of English and all. But, first of all, I insist: who brought literacy to the Dutch, to the German, and to the Old-Norse speaking peoples? Wasn't it Roman missionaries who did it? I still think this contact situation between the missionaries and the many still-illiterate among those peoples was responsible for a great many deal of missing links there are in the history of those languages mentioned above. If I am not asking too much, I was hoping you could enlighten us more about this. If I may ask, have you ever searched Vatican archives and libraries on this? I cannot but agree with you 100% that Low German, Dutch and Norse are important to the development of English and all. But, first of all, I insist: who brought literacy to the Dutch, to the German, and to the Old-Norse speaking peoples? Wasn’t it Roman missionaries who did it? I still think this contact situation between the missionaries and the many still-illiterate among those peoples was responsible for a great many deal of missing links there are in the history of those languages mentioned above. If I am not asking too much, I was hoping you could enlighten us more about this. If I may ask, have you ever searched Vatican archives and libraries on this?

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/dutch_words/#comment-148145 Book Calendar Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:31:30 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2394#comment-148145 I thought the term was pug ugly like the pug dog in reference to how ugly some dogs are. I'm probably wrong, maybe pug got changed into plug through a slip in the language. It is just a wild guess. I thought the term was pug ugly like the pug dog in reference to how ugly some dogs are. I’m probably wrong, maybe pug got changed into plug through a slip in the language. It is just a wild guess.

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