Mudcat Café Message

sj

User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
GUEST,gearoid	Pedantic Crack (70* d)	RE: Pedantic Crack	07 Apr 05
i watched a programme the other day about viking ancestors in england. i showed people in the wirral, near liverpool, speaking a dialect derived from viking people which used the word 'crack' (not sure how they spelt it) to to mean conversation. seeing as the word is used a lot in the north of england and mainly on the coast, newcastle area and north yorkshire, where other close to norse dialects are spoken i wonder if the word is from a viking word brought to england, scotland and ireland when the viking landed on these shores. makes sense to me!

Post to this Thread -

Back to the Main Forum Page

By clicking on the User Name, you will requery the forum for that user. You will see everything that he or she has posted with that Mudcat name.

By clicking on the Thread Name, you will be sent to the Forum on that thread as if you selected it from the main Mudcat Forum page.
* Click on the linked number with * to view the thread split into pages (click "d" for chronologically descending).

By clicking on the Subject, you will also go to the thread as if you selected it from the original Forum page, but also go directly to that particular message.

By clicking on the Date (Posted), you will dig out every message posted that day.

Try it all, you will see.