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English in UK
What is "Lagan"?
Hello!
By reading "My Lagan Love" lyrics by The Corrs, i wonder about this word, "lagan": it seems to be a proper noun, but is always so? I can't understand its meaning.
In a vocabolary I read "lagan, lagend, ligan": what this sort of declension is? "Lagan" reminds of an unrecoverable object on the sea bed. But why do The Corrs use it as a proper noun?
Is a male or a female name? Is it actually used?
Thank you for your explanation, if you can.
Bye,
Rocky3
"Il sapere e la ragione parlano, l'ignoranza ed il torto urlano".
Arturo Graf / Indro Montanelli / Anonimo
By reading "My Lagan Love" lyrics by The Corrs, i wonder about this word, "lagan": it seems to be a proper noun, but is always so? I can't understand its meaning.
In a vocabolary I read "lagan, lagend, ligan": what this sort of declension is? "Lagan" reminds of an unrecoverable object on the sea bed. But why do The Corrs use it as a proper noun?
Is a male or a female name? Is it actually used?
Thank you for your explanation, if you can.
Bye,
Rocky3
"Il sapere e la ragione parlano, l'ignoranza ed il torto urlano".
Arturo Graf / Indro Montanelli / Anonimo
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[nq:1]By reading "My Lagan Love" lyrics by The Corrs, i wonder about this word, "lagan": it seems to be a ... do The Corrs use it as a proper noun? Is a male or a female name?
- [nq:1]By reading "My Lagan Love" lyrics by The Corrs, i wonder about this word, "lagan": it seems to be a ...
- do The Corrs use it as a proper noun?
- Is a male or a female name?
- [/nq] It is indeed a proper noun: it is the name of a river in Northern Ireland.
- The song was not written by The Corrs, it was written over a hundred years ago, and the melody is probably a traditional one.
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[nq:1]By reading "My Lagan Love" lyrics by The Corrs, i wonder about this word, "lagan": it seems to be a ... do The Corrs use it as a proper noun? Is a male or a female name? Is it actually used?[/nq]
It is indeed a proper noun: it is the name of a river in Northern Ireland.
The song was not written by The Corrs, it was written over a hundred years ago, and the melody is probably a t
It is indeed a proper noun: it is the name of a river in Northern Ireland.
The song was not written by The Corrs, it was written over a hundred years ago, and the melody is probably a t
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John Briggs schrieb:
[nq:2]By reading "My Lagan Love" lyrics by The Corrs, i ... a male or a female name? Is it actually used?[/nq]
[nq:1]It is indeed a proper noun: it is the name of a river in Northern Ireland. The song was not ... a traditional one. Google is your friend, as is the Wikipedia. Please do not ask us what a "lenanshee" is.[/nq]
This is the English transliteration of "le
[nq:2]By reading "My Lagan Love" lyrics by The Corrs, i ... a male or a female name? Is it actually used?[/nq]
[nq:1]It is indeed a proper noun: it is the name of a river in Northern Ireland. The song was not ... a traditional one. Google is your friend, as is the Wikipedia. Please do not ask us what a "lenanshee" is.[/nq]
This is the English transliteration of "le
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At 20:42:51 on Sun, 26 Nov 2006, Einde O'Callaghan (Email Removed) wrote in
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[nq:1]John Briggs schrieb:[/nq]
[nq:2]Please do not ask us what a "lenanshee" is.[/nq]
[nq:1]This is the English transliteration of "leannán sidhe", which is a fairy lover in Irish mythology.[/nq]
The word sidhe also exists in Scots Gaelic, and can be seen, anglicised, in placenames lik
(Email Removed):
[nq:1]John Briggs schrieb:[/nq]
[nq:2]Please do not ask us what a "lenanshee" is.[/nq]
[nq:1]This is the English transliteration of "leannán sidhe", which is a fairy lover in Irish mythology.[/nq]
The word sidhe also exists in Scots Gaelic, and can be seen, anglicised, in placenames lik
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[nq:2]By reading "My Lagan Love" lyrics by The Corrs, i ... a male or a female name? Is it actually used?[/nq]
[nq:1]It is indeed a proper noun: it is the name of a river in Northern Ireland.[/nq]
As it happens I live on the hillside which is one side of the valley of the River Lagan.
In an hour or two I'll be going to collect my wife from a ferry from Scotland. It will sail up Belfast
[nq:1]It is indeed a proper noun: it is the name of a river in Northern Ireland.[/nq]
As it happens I live on the hillside which is one side of the valley of the River Lagan.
In an hour or two I'll be going to collect my wife from a ferry from Scotland. It will sail up Belfast
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"Unrecoverable" may not be an appropriate descriptor for lagan. At least one dictionary says that lagan is distinguished from flotsam and jetsam in that its location is marked with a buoy to facilitate recovery.
Since you mention it as part of a title, it's not
necessarily being used there as a proper noun. In a title, nearly all words are capitalized. Compare The Birth of a Nation .
Since you mention it as part of a title, it's not
necessarily being used there as a proper noun. In a title, nearly all words are capitalized. Compare The Birth of a Nation .
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[nq:1]But the etymology of "lagan" in a dictionary suggests that the seabed debris definition could conceivably be the one they had in mind:[/nq]
Who had in mind?
[nq:1]If that definition lingered in modern speech, a lagan lover could be metaphorically one who had been cast off by another lover, the right to whose love was claimed by yet another lover.[/nq]
Read the lyrics for the cont
Who had in mind?
[nq:1]If that definition lingered in modern speech, a lagan lover could be metaphorically one who had been cast off by another lover, the right to whose love was claimed by yet another lover.[/nq]
Read the lyrics for the cont
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[nq:2]But the etymology of "lagan" in a dictionary suggests that the seabed debris definition could conceivably be the one they had in mind:[/nq]
[nq:1]Who had in mind?[/nq]
Is it really not obvious that the ones who had "lagan" in mind were the ones who composed the title My Lagan Love ? How could they use it without having it in mind? Or, if it was composed by only one person, whose ***
[nq:1]Who had in mind?[/nq]
Is it really not obvious that the ones who had "lagan" in mind were the ones who composed the title My Lagan Love ? How could they use it without having it in mind? Or, if it was composed by only one person, whose ***
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[nq:2]Who had in mind?[/nq]
[nq:1]Is it really not obvious that the ones who had "lagan" in mind were the ones who composed the title ... the word "they" is the customary generic third-person-singular pronoun that's used in informal discourse to avoid saying "he or she".[/nq]
The lyrics were written (around 1904) by Joseph Campbell (also known as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil). "Lagan" only occurs
[nq:1]Is it really not obvious that the ones who had "lagan" in mind were the ones who composed the title ... the word "they" is the customary generic third-person-singular pronoun that's used in informal discourse to avoid saying "he or she".[/nq]
The lyrics were written (around 1904) by Joseph Campbell (also known as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil). "Lagan" only occurs
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[nq:2]It is indeed a proper noun: it is the name of a river in Northern Ireland.[/nq]
[nq:1]As it happens I live on the hillside which is one side of the valley of the River Lagan. In ... wife from a ferry from Scotland. It will sail up Belfast Lough which is the estuary of the River Lagan.[/nq]
I can now confirm that there is still water in the Lagan. ;-)
Peter Duncanson, UK
[nq:1]As it happens I live on the hillside which is one side of the valley of the River Lagan. In ... wife from a ferry from Scotland. It will sail up Belfast Lough which is the estuary of the River Lagan.[/nq]
I can now confirm that there is still water in the Lagan. ;-)
Peter Duncanson, UK
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Il Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:46:57 GMT, John Briggs ha scritto:
[nq:1]The lyrics were written (around 1904) by Joseph Campbell (also known as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil). "Lagan" only occurs in the context "Where Lagan stream sings lullaby" and "on the Lagan side". John Briggs[/nq]
Thank you for all your posts!
Rocky3
"Il sapere e la ragione parlano, l'ignoranza ed il torto urlano".
[nq:1]The lyrics were written (around 1904) by Joseph Campbell (also known as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil). "Lagan" only occurs in the context "Where Lagan stream sings lullaby" and "on the Lagan side". John Briggs[/nq]
Thank you for all your posts!
Rocky3
"Il sapere e la ragione parlano, l'ignoranza ed il torto urlano".
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