Long may you also have plenty of wood to keep your chimney smoking cheerfully, too, Colin. And a happy new year to you from New Hampshire USA. Marilyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin McCallum" <Colmac@colinmccallum.plus.com> To: <scotland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 7:43 PM Subject: [S-I] 2012 > My I wish all listers "A Happy and Prosperous New Year" > > Not forgetting the Auld Edinburgh New Year Greeting, > > "Lang May Your Lum Reek" > > Yours as Aye, > > Colin McCalum, A Scot far from home. > >>From a damp Northern Ireland or Norn I'ron. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

"Lang may your lum reek." Any explanations please?? Kerry Genealogy Nut Looking for these families: Abernathy/Abernethy, Adams, Brooks, Graham, Hartwig, Hicks, Key, McClendon, Knierim, Johnson, Latta/Latty, Legg,Travis, Twitty (Grahams are SI from SC>TN>AL>TX) > From: rosiedoggie@myfairpoint.net > To: Colmac@colinmccallum.plus.com; scotch-irish@rootsweb.com > Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 17:11:33 -0500 > Subject: Re: [S-I] 2012 > > Long may you also have plenty of wood to keep your chimney smoking > cheerfully, too, Colin. And a happy new year to you from New Hampshire USA. > Marilyn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Colin McCallum" <Colmac@colinmccallum.plus.com> > To: <scotland@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 7:43 PM > Subject: [S-I] 2012 > > > > My I wish all listers "A Happy and Prosperous New Year" > > > > Not forgetting the Auld Edinburgh New Year Greeting, > > > > "Lang May Your Lum Reek" > > > > Yours as Aye, > > > > Colin McCalum, A Scot far from home. > > > >>From a damp Northern Ireland or Norn I'ron. > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

http://www.rampantscotland.com/know/blknow_toasts.htm Lang may yer lum reek! (Long may your chimney smoke!) Wi' ither folks coal! (With other people's coal!) (The second line is said to have originated in Edinburgh!) Les Tate ================ On Jan 1, 2012, at 2:55 PM, KERRY BRANDOFF wrote: > > "Lang may your lum reek." Any explanations please?? > Kerry > > Genealogy Nut Looking for these families: Abernathy/Abernethy, Adams, Brooks, Graham, Hartwig, Hicks, Key, McClendon, Knierim, Johnson, Latta/Latty, Legg,Travis, Twitty (Grahams are SI from SC>TN>AL>TX) > > >> From: rosiedoggie@myfairpoint.net >> To: Colmac@colinmccallum.plus.com; scotch-irish@rootsweb.com >> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 17:11:33 -0500 >> Subject: Re: [S-I] 2012 >> >> Long may you also have plenty of wood to keep your chimney smoking >> cheerfully, too, Colin. And a happy new year to you from New Hampshire USA. >> Marilyn >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Colin McCallum" <Colmac@colinmccallum.plus.com> >> To: <scotland@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 7:43 PM >> Subject: [S-I] 2012 >> >> >>> My I wish all listers "A Happy and Prosperous New Year" >>> >>> Not forgetting the Auld Edinburgh New Year Greeting, >>> >>> "Lang May Your Lum Reek" >>> >>> Yours as Aye, >>> >>> Colin McCalum, A Scot far from home. >>> >>>> From a damp Northern Ireland or Norn I'ron. >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Lang my your lum reek means "long my your chimney smoke"....a wish that the recipient of the message will have the good fortune in the coming year to have enough money to have a fire going to cook and keep warm through the coming days. Marilyn in NH ----- Original Message ----- From: "KERRY BRANDOFF" <kerry1947@msn.com> To: "scotch-irish Scotch Irish List" <scotch-irish@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [S-I] 2012 > > "Lang may your lum reek." Any explanations please?? > Kerry > > Genealogy Nut Looking for these families: Abernathy/Abernethy, Adams, > Brooks, Graham, Hartwig, Hicks, Key, McClendon, Knierim, Johnson, > Latta/Latty, Legg,Travis, Twitty (Grahams are SI from SC>TN>AL>TX) > > >> From: rosiedoggie@myfairpoint.net >> To: Colmac@colinmccallum.plus.com; scotch-irish@rootsweb.com >> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 17:11:33 -0500 >> Subject: Re: [S-I] 2012 >> >> Long may you also have plenty of wood to keep your chimney smoking >> cheerfully, too, Colin. And a happy new year to you from New Hampshire >> USA. >> Marilyn >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Colin McCallum" <Colmac@colinmccallum.plus.com> >> To: <scotland@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 7:43 PM >> Subject: [S-I] 2012 >> >> >> > My I wish all listers "A Happy and Prosperous New Year" >> > >> > Not forgetting the Auld Edinburgh New Year Greeting, >> > >> > "Lang May Your Lum Reek" >> > >> > Yours as Aye, >> > >> > Colin McCalum, A Scot far from home. >> > >> >>From a damp Northern Ireland or Norn I'ron. >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> > the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >