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Thread #145099   Message #3355871
Posted By: Steve Gardham
26-May-12 - 10:57 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Is this a Scottish tune?
Subject: RE: Origins: Is this a Scottish tune?
'more influenced by Scandinavian languages than any other variety of English is.'

If by 'variety of English' you mean dialect, I was always led to believe that the East Riding dialect only a hundred years ago was very close to Danish. They used to say that ER farmers could hold a conversation with the visiting Danish fishermen in the local Hull pubs. Nigel Hudleston's glossary of East Yorkshire dialect does seem to confirm this.