[Ansteorra] ISO help with Welsh

Michelle Dodd lygabrielerdb at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 16 20:31:07 PDT 2010


William,

That is soooooo bad. 


Gabriele


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> From: wmeriic at tx.rr.com
> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:24:53 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] ISO help with Welsh
> 
> Actually, the term hill-billy comes from Japan. During the war of 1548,
> when the Japanese invaded Scotland over shipping right disputes, the
> Japanese use Willy as a slang term for Scotsman. The impression was that
> all Scots were named Will. Of course, genealogy records of the time show
> this to be completely false; only 87% of Scotsman were actually named Will.
> Anyway, due to the phonetics of Japanese, they actually pronounced it Billy.
> And, since Scotland is quite hilly, especially in contrast the vast deserts
> of Japan, they called them hill-billies.
> 
> The term was brought to America during the 1900's by Japanese immigrants.
> It became widely adopted in the US during the WWII, when Scotland refused to
> enter the war under conscience objection. Hence, the association of
> hill-billies as stupid and lazy eventually developed.
> 
> Will
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ansteorra-bounces+wmeriic=tx.rr.com at lists.ansteorra.org
> [mailto:ansteorra-bounces+wmeriic=tx.rr.com at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf
> Of Roysen AriManna
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:20 PM
> To: Inc.Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] ISO help with Welsh
> 
> So does that qualify you as a "hillbillie"?
> 
> In Love & Light, AriManna  
> aka Paula
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 6/16/10, William Meriic <wmeriic at tx.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> From: William Meriic <wmeriic at tx.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] ISO help with Welsh
> To: "'Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.'" <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 6:51 PM
> 
> Welsh, that is something I haven't heard in a while.  Here is the story.
> Countless attempts have been made to understand Welsh over the centuries.
> None have succeeded.  Currently, most linguists simply consider Welsh as a
> hoax.  However, as you might expect, there are those that suspect that it is
> an alien language, possibly introduced by visitors from the Gamma Aradon
> (spelling?) system.  Personally, I believe John Dee invented it for England
> to help distract the Irish during the conflicts over whether men should be
> allowed to marry their first cousins.  The Irish lost and as such I remain
> single.
> 
> Will
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ansteorra-bounces+wmeriic=tx.rr.com at lists.ansteorra.org
> [mailto:ansteorra-bounces+wmeriic=tx.rr.com at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf
> Of Roysen AriManna
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:38 PM
> To: Inc.Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA
> Subject: [Ansteorra] ISO help with Welsh
> 
> Found this wonderful site from the Oxford library that has 80 scanned
> manuscripts.  One is a 15th century Welsh text on medicine. Any suggestion
> on how to translate/ transcribe it?
> 
> Here is the website if it is not already in your bookmarks.
> http://image.ox.ac.uk/
> 
> In Love & Light, AriManna  
> aka Paula
> 
> 
> 
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