Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Saturday 8 November 2014

Not minding their Pees and Queues

the gawpers
and the gawkers.

1 comment:

Wofl said...

This gnomic verse refers to the linguistic tendency for P to turn into Q - as in P-Celtic (Welsh, Breton) and Q-Celtic (Irish). Thus Welsh PEN (a headland, as in the place-names Penarth, Penrith) is in Irish CEANN (transliterated as KEN/KIN, as in Kenmare, Kinsale - but not Kentucky).