Re: pistasch

On Aug 5, 11:16 pm, Prai Jei <pvstowns...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Craoibhi...@xxxxxxxxx set the following eddies spiralling through the
space-time continuum:

On Aug 5, 3:06 pm, Trond Engen <trond...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The spelling <ock> used to be common, though, and
can be used now to add a flavour of age to a text.

Uh, "ock" is a variant of "också" ("also"), actually. IMHO "ock" is
never used for "och" except in mistake.

I have come across an instance of what looks suspiciously like a mistake,
but perhaps you would like to clarify it: the lyric of Sibelius' song
"Höstkväll", a setting of a poem by Viktor Rydberg, Two independent sources
render the second verse thus:

Solen gick ned, det mörknar allt mer öfver moens furor,
mörknar om bergen, där ränniln suckar i ljung *ock* mossa.
Tvinsjukt dröjer ett gulblekt sken,
öfver västliga kullars rand.
Dagens hviskande afsked tonar
sorgset i tätnande skuggor bort.

In other verses, "och" is used throughout. Is that "ock" legit, a deliberate
archaism, or a simple mistake?

Your guess is as good as mine. To me, it definitely looks like a
mistake.
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