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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>,
	 The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:19:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_So8VQE4ApVSAHmNgQOKNGbaBbaizovxweu2+DJnx-NKQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210616215713.f1CA8%steffen@sdaoden.eu>

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On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 5:57 PM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:


> (Only to clarify that „bögge“ is not a German word to the best of my
> knowledge.  I was looking, as it sounded so »northern«,
>

And so it is: it's Low Saxon, and also exists in the compound form
"böggel-mann", plainly cognate to British English "bogeyman", American
English "boogeyman".  Or borrowed one way or the other: there is so much
borrowing and convergence in the Germanic languages around the North and
Baltic Seas that if we did not know the older varieties of these languages
we would never be able to work out just how they are related.



John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
Unless it was by accident that I had offended someone, I never apologized.
        --Quentin Crisp

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-18 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-15 22:16 Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-15 22:54 ` John Cowan
2021-06-15 23:44   ` Dan Cross
2021-06-16  3:48     ` Rob Pike
2021-06-16  4:13       ` Bakul Shah
2021-06-16 21:57         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-18 20:19           ` John Cowan [this message]
2021-06-18 21:00             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-18 22:59               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-19 13:34               ` Harald Arnesen
2021-06-19 13:39                 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-06-19  7:57             ` [TUHS] Bugs, Bööge and Bogeymen (was: 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-06-19 15:48               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-19 15:52                 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-06-19 16:36                   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-19 21:05                 ` Harald Arnesen
2021-06-20  3:30                   ` arnold
2021-06-16  1:06   ` [TUHS] Bug etymology " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-06-16  8:16 [TUHS] 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors Jason Stevens

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