Re: OT: The word yelp

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

ons 2002-01-30 klockan 19.10 skrev Jon Fox:
> "Yelp" is a real word.  It's one of those archaic
> Anglo-Saxon words that still exists in the US, long
> after it's disappeared from common usage in the rest
> of the English-speaking world (including England!),
> like the words "gotten" and "dove".
[...]
> US and British children will know the word "yelp" from
> Dr. Seuss' learn-to-read classic "Hop on Pop", which
> includes a picture of two yelping dogs, floating away
> in a flood, saying:
> "Yelp.  Help.  We yelp for help."
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/039480029X/
> Buy this excellent book for your kids... but not from
> Amazon please. :-)
> 
> The Seuss reference is funny and meaningful to
> Generation X guys like me who were raised on his
> books.  But it might not have any meaning to
> English-speakers in the rest of the world, let alone
> to people who speak it as a second language.

Thanks for the clarification. :-)
I only knew about the "sounds like help in Swedish" explanation.


Christian