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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Frisian and Old English
In-Reply-To: donald@srd.bt.co.uk's message of 10 Oct 1994 18:06:20 GMT
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In article <37bvqs$4rk@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> donald@srd.bt.co.uk
(Donald Fisk) writes:

>Old Frisian certainly would be very close to Old English, but the modern
>language looks more like Dutch to me.  Perhaps someone could post the same
>passage in Dutch, Frisian and Old English?

Including a phonetic transcription, if you can.  The *orthography* may be
misleading with respect to what is similar to what.  I believe that the
canonical sentence is

	Milk, bread, and green cheese is good English and good Fries.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
