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Dog dung doodle, Jackie, have we met? 
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Em...perhaps we have met the same person(s), eh? 
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Hey, you two, let me tell you a ... oops, sorry for interrupting.
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I also liked your...what was it? tw or yw, maybe--in the other thread.
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Thank yw. I believe hwmor facilitates learning.
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Thank yw.
In Middle Welsh orthography there are dotted ys (ẏ). In modern Welsh, there are plain y and w vowels and versions with circumflexes, ŷ and ŵ.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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What sounds do each make?
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Please pardon my boorish interruption of your stream of conversation, but I've a question regarding "boor," as meaning farmer: Is it the same word as the Dutch "Boer?" Is there any connection with "boar," a male swine?
If I've committed a faux pas, please forgive this first time poster.
Hal
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No faux pas. We wander all over the map in many of these threads. And they're both good questions. I know the first one is "yes". In fact, we stole boor from Dutch, according to AHD4. It's also the same word as the German Bauer. According to AHD4, they're also related to the English word bower if you go back far enough. They're not related to boar, which is from Old English.
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Please pardon my boorish interruption of your stream of conversation, but I've a question regarding "boor," as meaning farmer: Is it the same word as the Dutch "Boer?" Is there any connection with "boar," a male swine?
If I've committed a faux pas, please forgive this first time poster.
Hal
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