Fa – the Green Dragon

A Place for the Odd Musings of an Expat Bristolian


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Obscure words explained 78. – gree

GREE

A step or rank earned

Prize given for victory.

from Latin gradus


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Obscure words explained 77. – fictile

FICTILE

Of or relating

to pottery, baked thrown clay

painted and then glazed.


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Unusual U.K. place names 53. – Moreton in Marsh

MORETON in MARSH, Gloucestershire

Farmstead on the moor

Romans, Saxons came after

Iron-age settlers


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Obscure words explained 76. – sagacious

SAGACIOUS

Acute mental strength

Keen practical sense, shrewdness

Wise beyond belief

 


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Unusual U.K. place names 53. – Kirkcudbright

KIRKCUDBRIGHT, kirlcudbrightshire

Pronounced kirk Coo Bree

Meaning chapel of Cuthbert

He is buried here


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A Few Words

HORT CONVERSATIONS

Short conversations

I tend  to speak in haiku

Funny isn’t it?

 

 


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Unusual U.K. place names 52. – Wensleydale

WENSLEYDALE,  Yorkshire

Home to the Metcalfe clan

named after Woden’s  meadow

Famous for its cheese


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Unusual U.K. place names 58. – Godmanchester

GODMANCHESTER, Cambridgeshire

Durovigtum

Settled by Celts and Saxons.

An old Roman town


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Unusual U.K. place names 51. – Stow cum Quy

STOW CUM QUY, Cambridgeshire

Stow means a high place

Quy  from Cowey, cow island

cum Latin for with

 


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Obscure words explained 75. – Murine

MURINE

I can smell a rat

Maybe it’s Chinese new year

Or, is that a mouse?