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From: John Carpenter <>
Subject: Re: The Hamely Tongue
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 20:43:45 -0800 (PST)


I've heard ken often enough as a child (b. 1938) to
know what it means. What does "jalouse" mean?

---BOBBIE M HALL wrote:
>
> Diane Hettrick <> wrote:
> >BTW, I thought all those folks living in the hoots
and hollers of
> the
> >Appalachias, singing the old songs and speaking
middle English -
> were
> >English? A recent thread made me think that *we*
were claiming them
>
> >(*discounting, for the moment, my English blood,
which keeps turning
> out
> >to be something else anyway).
>
> There was a PBS show on a few years back (perhaps a
BBC production
> originally?) called The Story of English (?). I
remember distinctly a
> section
> about the Appalachian people, those who'd been kept
remote for
> hundreds
> of years. It compared their speech against that of
the oldest of the
> Ayrshire
> folk who still spoke a variation of Scots. Hardly a
difference to an
> outsider!
> What we found funny (my husband is an Ayrshire man)
was that they
> gave
> the Ayrshire gent subtitles!! <g>
> Would the Appalachian folk in the group know if the
words 'ken' and
> 'jalouse' have been used in recent memory? As in "I
ken what you
> meant"
> and "I jaloused that might happen."
>
> Bobbie
>
>

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