And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
My old Scottish born grandfather born 1902 used to recite nursery rhymes with an old pronunciation in which he would say the word "two" and pronounce the w; thus the word was pronounced twow ; just as we pronounce the w in twin and twist.
My ancestry is Scots-Irish, my elder relatives in NC pronounced "house" as "hice". I saw a video with a youngish Scotswoman speaking and she prounounced it the same.
Our friend Sarah here has parlayed her knowledge of Indo-European words into quite the career. Sarah, if you wouldn't mind, explain how that works. I thought liberal arts was a dead end study.
Interesting that neither Finnish (kaksi) or Hungarian (kettő) fall in there
ReplyDeleteMy old Scottish born grandfather born 1902 used to recite nursery rhymes with an old pronunciation in which he would say the word "two" and pronounce the w; thus the word was pronounced twow ; just as we pronounce the w in twin and twist.
ReplyDeleteFinnish and Hungarian are related and branched from the same older language. They do not have Indo-European roots.
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Related:
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Where does Basque fit in the chart? --Grin--
ReplyDeleteThanks, now I gotta go Number Yerku.
ReplyDeleteMy ancestry is Scots-Irish, my elder relatives in NC pronounced "house" as "hice". I saw a video with a youngish Scotswoman speaking and she prounounced it the same.
Our friend Sarah here has parlayed her knowledge of Indo-European words into quite the career. Sarah, if you wouldn't mind, explain how that works. I thought liberal arts was a dead end study.
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ReplyDeleteIs the chart for three up tomorrow?
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