Spake Scotty Logan on Friday, June 11, 2004 at 09:27PM -0700:
> On Jun 11, 2004, at 6:58 PM, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> >So, Gie him a break.
>
> Now I've not heard that since I left Scotland.
Heh, we have two logans now? Interesting.
Gotta love Silly Wizard / Andy Stewart:
/* Oh, there're sober men in plenty,
And drunkards barely twenty,
There are men of over ninety
That have never yet kissed a girl.
But gie me a ramblin' rover,
Frae Orkney down to Dover ... */
(Why does this remind me of Slashdot?)
I believe that "gie me (object)" is somehow related to "gimmie (object)",
though the former doesn't have the childish connotations of the later.
Perhaps a subconscious aversion to the letter 'v'.
Actually, English 'v' seems like a pretty rare sound in other
indo-european languages, being not unlike a 'b' in at least a few
romance languages...
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