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From: (Michael L. Jex)
Subject: FW: Family Motto?
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:56:27 -0700

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Howard,

"Go At Your Works of Service with Veal"

This is low German. - Pennsylvania Dutch?

Michael L. Jex
Clan Stirling Online
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Bloomington, Idaho 83223
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From: James W. Cropper [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 1:58 PM
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Subject: Re: Family Motto?



Hi Howard,

Try the following site for VERY ROUGH translations to/from other languages.
Sorry for yelling.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn

Jim Cropper

Howard Mais wrote:

> Dear Listers
>
> I wondered if anyone could help me with an accurate translation of the
following please and tell me what language it is. This is believed to be
the family motto, having been taken from an inherited silver salver from
Jamaican ancestors; some of the words seem to be German, but I cannot find
'arbit' (can find 'arbeit' though) and 'thue' in German dictionaries.
>
> "Dien Arbit Mit Eifer Thue"
>
> Many thanks
>
> Howard Mais

This thread:

• Family Motto? by "Howard Mais" <>
  • Re: Family Motto? by "James W. Cropper" <>
  • Re: Family Motto? it looks like German to me but cannot tell what it says by "bkaio" <>
    • ROFL did not read ur paragraph, only saw the short sentence and recognized it as german lol by "bkaio" <>
    • Re: Family Motto? it looks like German to me but cannot tell what it says by "David Hobson" <>
      • vunderful lol i only recognized the "work" and "with" not much help lol.Betty by "bkaio" <>
  • Re: Family Motto? by "Bousse Jan" <>
  • Re: Family Motto? by "monsanto" <>

  • FW: Family Motto? by (Michael L. Jex)

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