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MORNING
A "SPOONERIST" BLOW.
FAMOUS OXFORD WARDEN SHAT-
TERS AN ILLUSION.
All of us, treasure in remembrance the » Dr. W, A. Spooner, Warden of New place-names of the country side in which College. Oxford, celebrated his eightieth we were young and happy-the French birthday on July 2nd. He has the cat call it the petite patric, but we have not look of a man only half his age, and special phrase of the kind-and beauty the activities of a man a quarter his that is memorial hangs like a perfume years about them all... Indeed, it is easy to When I congratulated him today, string together a list of such well-retnem-writes & correspondent in a home paper, bered and well-beloved numes which will he smiled and then asked, suppoм sweep the heart-strings of an exile from you really want to know the latest his native shire, as wind makes music inapoonerism!! an Eolian harp, and bring tears to his eyes." What Man of Kent, for example, could resist the line that tells us how a broad road runa
All the way from Tenterden to Apple-
dore and Rye,
or fail to hear a sweet music, sorrowful yet somehow comfortable, in this requence of Kentish ales: Beacon Hill, Benenden, Cranbrook and Chart: Bulleign, Puddinenke, Staple
hurst am Maythem: Rolvenden. SmallBythe, Bildenden and
Wittersham;
Header Mertenders, Horsmalen
and (oudhurst
"Well, he continued, "it might in- terest the world to know that I don't think I have ever intentionally made a spoonerism in my life, and, in fact, 1 don't remember ever having made one. I know it is very sad to destroy the illu sions of England in this way, but this is a thing that is true."
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I am afraid that the spoonerisma of
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Dr. Spooner are really the spocuerismus SHANGHAI of the undergraduates of New College. am told that every one of the rooms in the college has produced a spoonsris, and I am also afraid that the under graduates have competitions to see who
can make the best spoonerisan, which they
nerously attribute to the Warden. Dr. Spooners has been Warden since You have to have been born among 1903, and has been continuously at the hoppoles or on Romney Marsh to know college since 1800, when he came as the just how to pronounce those names- first open scholar from Oswestry School. accent always on den and hurs, and he was successively Fellow, Dean. Sub- broad rolled, while Bullrign is pro-Warden, and Warden, in snecession to Dr. Sewell, who died in haress at the nounced as Anne Boleyn's name was, and Maytham is Maytum. being a local age of 3. family name. Do they not, even for the In his undergraduate years be rowed stranger to the weald, conjure up a vision in the college eight and rede a horse res of a green, opulent country, which thegularly until well past 80. Even now sound of a bat hitting a ball can always ever a day passion without his taking a he heard everywhere on a strumer Satar long walk,
for
day Very different is the wild, strange The tradition of moonerism hangs music of a string of Cornish uumes-Lost-bou: New College still, and this Inst withiel. Luxulan, Lamorna. Rosemergy. term has been productive of the name Halzaphron, Coldrenick, Endellion. How Mr. Footlight for Mr. Lightfoot, one they sing themselves, with wild glee or of the dons of the college, and another in an restasy of regret And how they little gem has been raving soup recall grey and lonely hills, For glipses saving hope. There has also been the of a peacock sea, and deep wooded valleys leading hope of the uprising Tories." nhder the steep commotion of a hurrying blue-and-white skylt would not be dif feult. I think, to make a lyric out of the place names in each and every shire which would touch the heart of an exile therefrom as poignantly as the song of a red brenst totched the soldier poet's:
This is a song, a robin sang This morning on a broken tree. It was about the little fielda
That call across the world to me.
(Notts) are places of a red cliff. These, are cases in which the puzzle solves itself i as soon as the earliest form is obtained. But there are many names--probably of Celtic or even pre-Celtic provenance-- which are as puzzling in their earliest as in their latest forms. The examples given by Mr. Sedgefield are Dethick (Derbyshire), Frenze (Norfolk). Chatteris (Cambridgeshire). Noctorum, (Cheshire), Sengry (Wiltshire). Dyance (Northumber Recently, I am glad to hear an England) Pentrich (Derby), and Hrene lish Place-name Society has been estab lished (address your inquiries to the Hon. (Sussex). No doubt these were aboriginal Secretary. The niversity, Liverpool), and names takeover by the Anglo-Saxons, who did not know the meaning of them the first sheaves of its harvesting come to and so mispronounced and misspelt them, is now in two learned volumes, published They are like coins which have passed by the Cambridge University Press, 1 from band to hand for such a long time the first volume the proper methods of that the date, the sovereign's effigy," and place-name study are discussed by Mrall else have been worn away
trce:
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W. J. Sedgefield, and the various ele It is a fascinating study, if conducted ments in their composition-Celtic, Eng- lish. Scandinavian. Frerich, and Feudal scientifically on the lines laid down in these erudite, yet profoundly interesting. analysed with a variety of examples volumes. The honest investigator will be Educated persons know that such saffixes as thurpe, by, ham to, etc.. specific slow to dogmatise, avoiding the cocksure- meanings, but it seldom occurs to them of the amateur solver of place-name that the first part of the place-name may meanings who is to be met with in every also have its special significance. It was part of the country. He will distrust the obvious "neat solution" by which the late Professor W. W, Skeat, a famous the writers of guide-books are so often pioneer in many partments of the Eng deladed. But be, will be rewarded, even fishman's study of English things, who if he fails to solve some long-standing first put this investigation on a scientif puzzle in nomenclature. by an honest footing. Interesting in itself, especially pride in bis small scholarship, and by an when some etymological puzzle is co- vincingly solved, the study of place. insight into the history of the corner of the much remembering countryside of names throws a dood of light on the which he himself is an emanation, if not bronder issues of English history. For example, the numerous instances of 50 far as a flower or so enduring as a British place-names prove that the British population was not exterminated even in the parts first occupied by the Anglo-Saxon invaders, and, to take a particular instanc, their peculiar dis tribution in Lancashire makes for the belief that the surviving British settle- ments there were not restricted to the hilly fastnesses. Here is a very interest- ing deduction from a curious set of place- names--the occurrence in Cumberland, especially in the Carlisle district, of a number of names in by (Sandinavian for village or homestead), with a Flemish or Norman personal, nume as the first element, as Allonby (Allon's village), Aglionby (Aguillon's), and Rickerby (Richard's). These names arose as a re- sult of Flemish settlement there in the time of William Rufus after the conquest of 1092. They must have been given by the earlier inhabitants, not by the new settlers, and it follows that. Scandina viad was still spoken around Carlish about 1100. The popularity of borac- racing among the Scandinavians is also proved by the existence of certain place- Bes In Sweden many places have names referring to the horse-races held there in ancient times-e.3... Hästerkede, which is really the world for racecourse. Similar names in England are Hesketh (Lancashire). Hesket (Cumberland), and Wickham Skeith' (Suffolk). The older histories of England were too much con- cerned with the coming and going or kings and their famous victories or de-. feats; they did not tell us enough about the common people who, as we see in: the late Maurice Hewlett's rhymed his tory, went on with their ploughing, and took nuncheon under the hedge," while Sealat or some other great battle was rag- ing a few Kelds away.
COUNTRYSIDE MEMORIES. The business of the worker in this de- lightful demesne of historical research, which begins at his doorstep, is first of all, to collect all the early forms of a place name; "next, to examine and arrange all the evidence, which must be compared with that collected in similar cases. It will very often be found that the earliest recorded form is very different from the modern name, and at once reveals the original meaning. Thus Kimberley (Notte) is Cynemaer's leg or clearing, Brighton (Sussex) is Brikthelm's ton or farm,
the Preston (Lancashire) is Priests farm, Mapledurham (Oxford: ahire). s zapletree farmstead, "and Radcliffe-on-Trent and Ratcliffe-on-Soar
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