Re: Crying Janet

Fran Kemmish wrote:
Don Phillipson wrote:
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Following our discussions some time ago about 'naming' and
calling', I noted, in Kate Atkinson's "Emotionally Weird", that one
character introduces her her dog withe the words "She's cried
Janet".

Are we quite sure this is not a misprint for "She's called Janet"?


I don't know how one would find out whether that is so or not. I don't
know whether the rest of the Dundee dialect she uses is authentic.

Dictionary of the Scots Lang. has examples of this use from Argyll,
Glasgow, and Lanarkshire, but that doesn't mean it isn't found to the
north-east.

--
Mike.


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