[blml] DeWael School and WBFLC

[John Probst]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grattan Endicott" <grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "blml" <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] DeWael School and WBFLC


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> Grattan Endicott
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Herman De Wael" <hermandw at skynet.be>
> To: "blml" <blml at rtflb.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 6:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [blml] DeWael School and WBFLC
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>>>> PS: Am I wrong when I thought the word was blithering?
>>>
> +=+ Actually it is originally either 'blethering' or 'blathering'.
> 'Blithering' is a corruption of these. So I guess it is no more
> than deviant corruption if you happen to type 'bluthering'.
>   Forms I have not yet met are 'blothering' and 'blythering',
> nor, the possibly Cymraeg, 'blwddering'.
>                               ~ Grattan ~   +=+

I tend to think of Scottish etymology; "a good blether" springs to mind. 
It's not a Southern (London) usage normally and I wrote it with the 
intention of using dialect; mis-spelling the "blethering" I'd had in mind. 
Well, it's a new collection of epithets to describe Herman, who deserves 
most of them :) cheers john.
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