Comments on: Desperately Seeking Glaswegian Interpreters http://www.k-international.com/blog/desperately-seeking-glaswegian-interpreters/ Searching the World for exclusive language stories everyday Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:56:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Howard Huws http://www.k-international.com/blog/desperately-seeking-glaswegian-interpreters/#comment-179 Howard Huws Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:56:11 +0000 http://www.bloglingua.com/?p=1087#comment-179 In Welsh, "shopping" is "negesau", i.e. messages. Welsh was spoken in Strathclyde until about the 11th or 12th century, but I think that "messages" for "shopping" may derive from an early modern English usage no longer current in England itself, but remaining "live" elsewhere. In Welsh, “shopping” is “negesau”, i.e. messages. Welsh was spoken in Strathclyde until about the 11th or 12th century, but I think that “messages” for “shopping” may derive from an early modern English usage no longer current in England itself, but remaining “live” elsewhere.

]]> By: lyzazel http://www.k-international.com/blog/desperately-seeking-glaswegian-interpreters/#comment-178 lyzazel Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:14:28 +0000 http://www.bloglingua.com/?p=1087#comment-178 This looks cool. I wonder how you can get to "messages" meaning "shopping". Perhaps that's refering to the ads that one sees while shopping but that's still hard to imagine. This looks cool.

I wonder how you can get to “messages” meaning “shopping”. Perhaps that’s refering to the ads that one sees while shopping but that’s still hard to imagine.

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