Re(2): Re # 928 - Rosa in Holland

[Anders Christian Siveb¾k]

ME
>>So Dan, you wont have to call the ombudsman
>>(which is a loan word from swedish or danish btw)

Sigvald: 
>
>No, no, no!!! It definately comes from the NORWEGIAN
>word "ombudsmann". 
>It was probably loaned into English
>from the Norwegian vikings in Ireland, Scotland, the
>Hebrides, Shetland or Man. This is stuff I learned
>during my early university studies in the late 1980's.
I said swedish because I didn't want to insult by only writing danish - 
it shows I shouldn't have written norwegian then - we have exactly 
the same word in danish though, but our two languages are quite close. 
The vikings you say? i believe you :-)
>
>It means a representative btw., like "Barneombudet" =
>"The children's representative".
Exactly

Hilsen/Yours
Anders Christian Sivebæk
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