The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #96928 Message #1901330
Posted By: MBSLynne
06-Dec-06 - 03:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: Need saltpeter for my Yuletide ham
Subject: RE: BS: Need saltpeter for my Yuletide ham
On the subject of the evolution of words, it's something I find fascinating. The area in which I live was once part of the "Danelaw" so populated by our Danish and Viking invaders. If you search out the dialect words used (generally only by the older people these days, unfortunately)around the area, a lot of them have Danish origins.