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Category Archives: Anglo-Saxons
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Unusual U.K. place names 90. – Great Snoring
GREAT SNORING, Norfolk
Was Snoring Magna
from Saxon named Snaringa
Noted for water-Mill.
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Obscure words explained 99. – garth
Krek waiters peak bristle
Another departure: Some (many) years ago a book was written, I’ll find the author’ s name one of these days. which spoke about the way people from Bristol speak.
One of the curiosities of the Bristol dialect is the propensity of Bristolians to add an “l” to a final “a” in place of a glottal stop. This curious fact has led me to this post in light of the pandemic now about us; Has anybody from Bristol heard the word Coronavirus pronounced “coronalvirus?
Note: The title of this post is the aforementioned title of the book. It translates as, The correct way to speak Bristol.
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Uncommon Sense 1.
I thought I might be useful to change my theme for a while: Considering our pandemic with the corona virus. It’s a very serious matter and our thoughts actions and words should be appropriately aligned.
Therefore, I dug up a book from my library written by Joseph Telushkin entitled “Uncommon Sense”. If you are interested, hi book was published by Shapolsky publishers, New York, 1987.
I will share some of these/those quotes which I think express the importance of our attitude, thoughts and actions during these testing times.
1. The question of bread for yourself is a material question, But the question of bread for your neighbour is a spiritual one.
i. Nkolai Berdyaev 1874-1948
Note: You might find it interesting to check out these people. They had interesting things to say.
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Unusual U.K. place names 86. – Cheddzoy
CHEDDZOY, Somerset
Old English name cedd
Both Romans and Saxons here
Chedd meaning island
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A confession
I was wrong about unusual UK place names posting Stuggadhoo. Technically The Isle of Mann in not part of the U.K. This comes about because it is a Crown possession and is as such governed independently.
I will do penance and wear ashes and sackcloth for at last 2 hours next Wednesday or tomorrow whichever comes sooner.
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Sword words – en garde!
SWORD WORDS
Broadsword Claymore Foil
Scimitar Sabre Cutlass
Epée Rapier
Note: Just mucking about on my day off.
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Unusual U.K. place names 82. – Market Rasen
MARKET RASEN, Linolnshire
Name from Old English
Raesn meaning a plank bridge
over River Rase
Fa - the Green Dragon 
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