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Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Originally Posted by velvet donkey:

Just before you ask.

 

No change outta two hunner.

whats a hunner?

The word can be found in Scottish texts from the late fourteenth century onwards and is related to Old English hundred, from which the modern English form derives. One of the regular features of Scots grammar is that plural numbers are often used with singular forms of its noun, and this can be traced right back to examples like "fyve hundyr men" in John Barbour's fourteenth-century poem, The Bruce, and "twa hundyr mark of sterlyngys" in the Memorials of the Family of Wemyss in 1389. The same construction is found in modern Scots, as in Alan Warner's novel The Sopranos (1998): "A taxi can make a hunner pound in an hour".
Hunner, or lang hunner is used to denote a number of sheep, fish, plants and so forth, and is often equated with a hundred and twenty, or six score, although the exact figure may vary. The word and its variants have also appeared in a number of plant-names, such as hundred-fald for lady's bedstraw, hunirt-leaft girss for yarrow, and hunder-leafed rose for the peony. However, our evidence for these words is somewhat patchy and dated, so we would be delighted to hear from anyone who still knows or uses these terms.

FM
Originally Posted by erinp:
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Originally Posted by velvet donkey:

Just before you ask.

 

No change outta two hunner.

whats a hunner?

The word can be found in Scottish texts from the late fourteenth century onwards and is related to Old English hundred, from which the modern English form derives. One of the regular features of Scots grammar is that plural numbers are often used with singular forms of its noun, and this can be traced right back to examples like "fyve hundyr men" in John Barbour's fourteenth-century poem, The Bruce, and "twa hundyr mark of sterlyngys" in the Memorials of the Family of Wemyss in 1389. The same construction is found in modern Scots, as in Alan Warner's novel The Sopranos (1998): "A taxi can make a hunner pound in an hour".
Hunner, or lang hunner is used to denote a number of sheep, fish, plants and so forth, and is often equated with a hundred and twenty, or six score, although the exact figure may vary. The word and its variants have also appeared in a number of plant-names, such as hundred-fald for lady's bedstraw, hunirt-leaft girss for yarrow, and hunder-leafed rose for the peony. However, our evidence for these words is somewhat patchy and dated, so we would be delighted to hear from anyone who still knows or uses these terms.

 

I thought it was a big American car !!!

 

Thanks for the info Erin 

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Originally Posted by erinp:
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Originally Posted by velvet donkey:

Just before you ask.

 

No change outta two hunner.

whats a hunner?

The word can be found in Scottish texts from the late fourteenth century onwards and is related to Old English hundred, from which the modern English form derives. One of the regular features of Scots grammar is that plural numbers are often used with singular forms of its noun, and this can be traced right back to examples like "fyve hundyr men" in John Barbour's fourteenth-century poem, The Bruce, and "twa hundyr mark of sterlyngys" in the Memorials of the Family of Wemyss in 1389. The same construction is found in modern Scots, as in Alan Warner's novel The Sopranos (1998): "A taxi can make a hunner pound in an hour".
Hunner, or lang hunner is used to denote a number of sheep, fish, plants and so forth, and is often equated with a hundred and twenty, or six score, although the exact figure may vary. The word and its variants have also appeared in a number of plant-names, such as hundred-fald for lady's bedstraw, hunirt-leaft girss for yarrow, and hunder-leafed rose for the peony. However, our evidence for these words is somewhat patchy and dated, so we would be delighted to hear from anyone who still knows or uses these terms.

 

I thought it was a big American car !!!

 

Thanks for the info Erin 


that's a hummer

FM

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