Re: You say Toe-MAY-to, I say Toe-MAH-to, let's call the whole thing off!

[Heather Swann <heather@pop.net>]

Poster: Heather Swann <heather@pop.net>

> Quoted from Miri -
>
> << Sae weel wha ye say.  Mesel', I dinae use 'car' o' cause it minds me o' th'
>  modern one- I say 'wain', but I wouldnae say ithers couldnae do so theirsels.
>  I feel there are some words wha are proper, yet sound sae modern, tha we
> dinnae
>  use 'em so as to nae think in the modern wa. >>
>
> And what wud ye be sayin, instead o' 'car'?   Therrre might weil be another
> ward wha is proper, an' not sae modern, but I dinna ken it.
>
> Margaret Cameron

Werrre ye no' listenin', woman?  ; )  I say 'wain'.  Granted, I dinnae haul hay in
it, but I do haul a great deal o' other things.......

Miri

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