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Obscure words explained66. – Deipnosophist

DEIPNOSOPHIST

A good dinner guest

Great conversationalist

They don’t eat their words


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Unusual U.K. place names19. – Framilode

FRAMILODE, Gloucestershire

On the Severn’s Bank

The Tidesman* opens the lock

for the passing trows**

 

*Tidesman is a lock-keeper

**Trow is a flat-bottomed barge-like boat about 70Ft long for hauling cargo

The name Framilode means Frome crossing.


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Unusual U.K. Place names 21. – Happy Bottom

HAPPY BOTTOM, DORSET

No person gets here

by sitting around all day.

Start exploring.

Note: To explore these unusual place names, I urge readers to visit Google Earth to see where on earth they are situated and then to visit Wikipedia for expanded historical information. All of this is difficult to convey in just 17 syllables.


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Unusual U.K. place names 20. – Lychett Matravers

LYCHETT MATRAVERS

Lichett means grey Wood

Feudal Lord Hugh Maltravers

Name from Brittonic

Note: To explore these unusual place names, I urge readers to visit Google Earth to see where on earth they are situated and then to visit Wikipedia for expanded historical information. All of this is difficult to convey in just 17 syllables.


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Unusual U.K. place names 18. – France Lynch

FRANCE LYNCH

Old stone cottages

near Severn and Thames canal

Folk from Chalford Vale


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Unusual U.K. place names17 – Ingst

INGST

Only five households

three of which are cattle farms

Near River Severn


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Unusual U.K. place names 8. – Zeal Manachorum

ZEAL MANACHORUM

On the River Yeo

Named after the cells of monks

at Buckfast Abbey