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 PalazioVecchio  south pole 28 Dec 22 8.49pm |
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in any language you like. Shambles, shambolic.......pertaining to a meat shop ( or occasionally a fishambles ) IceBerg.....iceMountain Hooligan....an irish family of reprobates from yesteryear Thug.....and Indian violent sect who specialised in garrotting people Vandal......barbarian tribe of ancient Rome The barrel of a gun......from original cannon being made at the Coopers. check-mate....shack-mat....the king is dead. Related to the Shah of Persia Poppycock.....Dutch...soft shyte Bothair...irish for Road..from tiny to a Motorway.....Cow track. Penguin......welsh.....white head. Bellwether ......in the Stock market, a predictor....on a farm..a castrated Ram with a bell around ( insert possessive pronoun) neck. Maid.....domestic servant, but actually a virgin. Hence an Old Maid was a pejorative term. Maidenhead....not connected to Hyman Roth from the Godfather. Flughafen.....german for airport....Flight-Port, sounds like seagulls landing near the pier. Manhatten....derives from the Munsee Lenape language term manaháhtaan (where manah- means "gather", -aht- means "bow", and -aan is an abstract element used to form verb stems). The Lenape word has been translated as "the place where we get bows" or "place for gathering the (wood to make) bows"..Archery. Selhurst is named after the Old English for "dwelling in a wood", or possibly 'dwelling where willows grow'; the name is first recorded in 1225. Balmoral.....possible Bally More......big town. Fornication.....a recreational activity performed 'underneath the arches' the Fornix. The Boer War..........the Farmer War Idiot....a private person unconnected to Politics of State Chauffeur....the bloke who keeps the car of a posh person warm. The River Avon.....river river The name Penge derives from Celtic words meaning 'head of the wood'; Pencoed in Wales has exactly the same origin. This is one of the few Celtic place names in London and suggests the survival of a native British contingent after Anglo-Saxon colonisation. Anerley.....Celtic...Aonar...solitary or alone. Shrove Tuesday, shriven, shrived and wived,.....expunged of one's sins. Senate...a political house pertaining to old people...connected to Senile. Yakuza....japanese 893, a poxy hand in cards. A dud, a cast-off. Southend (on Sea), the southern extremity of the main metropolis of Prittlewell. The small unimportant place , beyond the city walls....a bit like Westminster when it was Thorney Island, an abandoned and desolate place beyond the main parts of London. Douchebag....a female hygiene product associated with modern day Brighton.
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 becky  over the moon 29 Dec 22 7.51am |
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Fascinating! Of course, the origins of both Penge & Selhurst refer to their respective places in the Great North Wood which subsequently gave it's name to the various Norwoods.
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| PalazioVecchio south pole 29 Dec 22 10.31am |
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Crawley's name is derived from the Anglo Saxon crawe leah meaning a 'crow infested clearing' Gatwick : Its name derives from the Old English gāt (goat) and wīc (dairy farm); i.e. "goat farm". Heathrow or Heath Row was a wayside hamlet along a minor country lane called Heathrow Road in the ancient parish of Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Stansted was a Saxon settlement (the name means 'stony place' in Anglo-Saxon) that predates the Norman conquest. Luton......Lea Town....Lea = Loo....for any large body of water. Seems appropriate Edited by PalazioVecchio (21 Jan 2023 5.50pm)
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| Palace Old Geezer Midhurst 29 Dec 22 12.45pm |
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Wallington, where I originated, was, as I understand it, once a walled in town. I woke one day to find that the word woke, which is the past participle of the period following sleep, means something quite different these days. How that happened and what it is intended to mean I fail to understand. Just stupid. A tow rag is typically a reference to a low life scumbag today. The term originated in the Navy as a reference to a long piece of rope with a rag tied to it which was trailed in the water from the bow of a ship. The rag was used by sailors to clean up after using the ship's toilet (or head in Naval terms).
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| ex hibitionist Hastings 20 Jan 23 2.41pm |
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Utopia is 'nowhere' in ancient Greek, and a robot is a slave in Czech (anyone who has to work for nothing - 'robota' is drudgery).
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| HeathMan Purley 20 Jan 23 11.52pm |
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Thanks to all contributors
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| PalazioVecchio south pole 21 Jan 23 5.59pm |
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into the old Celtic languages.....Selhurst is etymologically connected to willow from whence we get 'Sally Rod' ..an irish Cane of chastisement. and it is true...we have caned many teams who visited us and were naughty enough to deserve punishment. Less of the clack of leather on willow. More willow on flesh. [Link] Palace Palatine Hill..... (not Sydenham Hill ).... the name of the Palatine hill in Rome, where the house of the emperor was situated. Edited by PalazioVecchio (21 Jan 2023 6.19pm)
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