[Magdalen] Enjoying a colleague's accent

[ME Michaud]

A Danish friend went hiking in the North of England and was
astonished to hear a local farmer refer to a viper slithering
across the road as a huggorm [hoog orm] (hug being the word for strike
or striking, I think, and orm a worm).
-M


On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, H Angus <hangus at ctcn.net> wrote:
>
> I gather this was Geordie, and it's supposed to be infused with a
> lot of Scandinavian words.  I can recall the local couple  referring to
> their "hjem", which is exactly the same word for "home" in Norwegian.
>
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