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From: "Ian Westergaard" <>
Subject: Re: [DK] Translation Help
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 07:28:28 +1200
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Hi Rock

Steen wrote:-

> I remember him walking the country selling his wares as late as the
fifties.

That is completely different from an out of work brushmaker "on the Tramp"
round England looking for work in 1840.

My English dictionary has, among a myriad of other meanings, tramps = in
search of work .

Ian Westergaard
In Cloudy & Mild Central Otago
New Zealand

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rockne Johnson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: [DK] Translation Help


Well, Ian, for once I am not making it all up. You can read about it at:
<http://www.brushmakers.com/>;

Rock

At 07:47 PM 3/29/02 +1200, Ian Westergaard wrote:
>Rock said:-
>
>> In England it was called "tramping". <
>
>I doubt it!
>
>Generically he would be a hawker, but more usually called "the brushman".
>
>A tramp is what was, and may still be, called a bum in North America!
>
>In New Zealand a tramper is a person who goes backpacking on backcountry
>tracks (trails in North American English).
>
>Oh the subtleties of the English language!
>
>Ian Westergaard
>In Cloudy & Warm Central Otago
>New Zealand
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rockne Johnson" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 3:02 PM
>Subject: Re: [DK] Translation Help
>
>
>In England it was called "tramping".
>
>Rock
>
>At 07:45 PM 3/28/02 -0600, Steen E Mortensen wrote:
>>Hej All
>>
>>A børstebinder as I recall would make brushes, but mostly actually brooms
>>for cleaning floors, brushes for clothes and shoes etc. I remember him
>>walking the country selling his wares as late as the fifties.
>>
>>Med venlig hilsen
>>Steen Erik

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