Feb. 1, 2006, 3:48 p.m. (Message 44019, in reply to message 44016)
Sgean / sgian, don´t know who "we" are, but I have seen it both ways.
Feb. 1, 2006, 4:01 p.m. (Message 44020, in reply to message 44016)
>----- Original Message ----- >From: "Thomas G. Mungall, III" <xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx> >To: "SCD news and discussion" <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> >Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 2:17 PM >Subject: Sgian Dubh was Scottish Country Dancing VS Scottish Folk Dancing >Richard, >Don't we usually see the spelling as "sgian dubh"? The spelling is listed as SKEAN in the following 11 sources : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition : Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language : Infoplease Dictionary : Dictionary.com : Online Plain Text English Dictionary : Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary : Webster's 1828 Dictionary : Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words : The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words for those who are 'concerned' about such matters. Alasdair Graham Dumbarton, Scotland.
Feb. 1, 2006, 4:25 p.m. (Message 44021, in reply to message 44020)
Hi Thomas, > The spelling is listed as SKEAN in the following 11 sources > > : EncartaR World English Dictionary, North American Edition > : Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition > : The American HeritageR Dictionary of the English Language > : Infoplease Dictionary > : Dictionary.com > : Online Plain Text English Dictionary > : Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition > : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary > : Webster's 1828 Dictionary > : Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words > : The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words > > for those who are 'concerned' about such matters. In Gaelic it's "sgian" - knife. Probably one source has picked up an Anglicised version and the others have copied it. "Skean" is _not_ a common spelling in my experience - I would expect "Sgian". Cheers, Ian Brockbank Edinburgh, Scotland xxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx http://www.scottishdance.net/
Feb. 1, 2006, 9:17 p.m. (Message 44025, in reply to message 44020)
Since the spelling had nothing to do with my post, I was really more interested in the usage of the post, having a "grammar moment" with the pronoun "we" sans antecedent.