{"id":7027,"date":"2016-06-04T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7027"},"modified":"2016-05-30T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T23:12:13","slug":"good-butter-and-good-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7027","title":{"rendered":"Good Butter and Good Cheese . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OeC1yAaWG34\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you take a class in the history of the English language, you probably learn the phrase, &#8220;Good butter and good cheese is good English and good Friese.&#8221; This video takes it a little farther: can a speaker of Old English and a speaker of Friesian talk about the cow that gives the milk\/milch?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kind-of sort of related<\/strong>:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrantpedantry.com\/2014\/12\/01\/celtic-and-the-history-of-the-english-language\/\"> an attack at the <em>Arrant Pedantry <\/em>language blog on whether &#8220;do support&#8221; in English has Celtic-language roots. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>For English-language nerds only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you take a class in the history of the English language, you probably learn the phrase, &#8220;Good butter and good cheese is good English and good Friese.&#8221; This video takes it a little farther: can a speaker of Old English and a speaker of Friesian talk about the cow that gives the milk\/milch? 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