[Sca-cooks] Old French Ailliee
Susan Fox
selene at earthlink.net
Thu May 1 13:27:48 PDT 2008
There's a mental image. I'd tend to wonder if they were peddling garlic
sauce or if someone had stomped upon their toes though.
"Aillieeeeeeeee!!!!!"
Five exclamation points. A sure sign of insanity.
Selene
emilio szabo wrote:
> Godefroy, in his 'Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue francaise et de tous ses
>
> dialectes du IXe au XVe siècles' writes about "Ailliee":
>
> "Cette sauce était d'un usage si général que dans le treizième siècle, des
>
> marchands la criaient dans les rues comme on le fait encore de nos jours
>
> pour la moutarde."
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> The whole article is here:
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> http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k50634z/f192.table
>
>
>
> ES
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