Lowlands-L Anniversary Celebration

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Please click here to leave an anniversary message (in any language you choose). You do not need to be a member of Lowlands-L to do so. In fact, we would be more than thrilled to receive messages from anyone.
Click here to read what others have written so far.

About the story
What’s with this “Wren” thing?
   The oldest extant version of the fable we are presenting here appeared in 1913 in the first volume of a two-volume anthology of Low Saxon folktales (Plattdeutsche Volksmärchen “Low German Folktales”) collected by Wilhelm Wisser (1843–1935). Read more ...

Ben Bloomgren
Location: Scottsdale (Vaşai S-vaşonĭ), Arizona, USA

Project participation: Western American English


Hello, my name is Ben J. Bloomgren. I live in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

I speak Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. I learned the last three over the Internet.

I am also very interested in birds and birding.

I came to Lowlands-L because I am fascinated with language. My native language, English, does very screwy things with words and concepts, and I wanted to find out more about where we get our words. It amazed me one day when I posted a question about the origin of the word “bird.” It was subsequently told to me that bird comes from the pre-Celtic word “breed.” How amazing!

That’s the kind of thing that I love about Lowlands-L.

Ben Bloomgren
2005


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