[Jacob-list] Scrapie

[Melanie]

Imagine holding your tongue if you were me then.....being a) an Englishwoman in rural Ontario, and b) a very boring pedant when it comes to the English language, I'm faced with the local dialect which includes calling a ewe a "yo", and their utter inability to understand ME when I saw "straw". I have to write it down. LOL, you made me remember my previous life in England actually, the times I said "It's TESCO, there's no S!"

(BTW I think the confusion with scrapie comes from its similar sound to "rabies")

Melanie
My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely.





  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Betty Berlenbach 
  To: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 
  Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 7:14 AM
  Subject: [Jacob-list] Scrapie


  As far as I know, and for future reference for everyone, the tags we put on our animals are scrapie tags, not scrapies tags.  The disease is scrapie, not scrapies.  I've see people use it in magazines in the plural, but I'm pretty sure that's just not the name of the disease.  Unless, of course, there's some British usage or alternate spelling, which I haven't researched.  Just one of my crazy pet peeves, like saying reel-a-tor, instead of re-al-tor, for the guy who sells land, and nu-cu-lar, instead of nucle-ar for that fusion stuff.  Someone famous once said, when a language breaks down, the culture breaks down.  Not sure that's true, but...Enough ranting: it's 6:30 in the a.m. and I'm not awake enough yet to have reminded myself to try to be a nice person!
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