Why Matilda is sometimes known as Maud [.
CUTE MEDIEVAL NAMES SERIES
The ships of the Henrician navy are however listed in such books as 'Tudor Sea Power' which should be available on inter-library loan if your local library doesn't hold it heh, maybe I should do a series of blogs on ship names too Reply Delete The other half is, I THINK in the Bodleian. Certainly half of the Anthony Anthony roll is there but you have to jump through hoops to see it. I think some may be on fiche, and some may have been digitised. Also there are lists of warships at the Maritime Museum at Greenwich but I believe you need an appointment to get to see them.
Lloyds list is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the world, and a letter to Lloyds might get you access to some of their earlier records. For later ship names may I recommend a reprint of what was a collection from the Lloyds List, ships of 1800. James and Jacob were both recorded as Jacobus in Latin documents. Confusing is that Hen, Han, Henk, Henkin and so on were not just Henry but could also be John and that both John and James were known as Jack, though it derived originally through the French Jacques for James. That its dialect carries some fossilised speech of the past.īelieve it or not, a lot of it came from the Oxford Dictionary of Surnames, because a lot of modern surnames derive from old pet names! I've also wandered through a few old assize documents, and there are things like 'Walter of Trimley alias Watkin' which give some of the names by which people were known. East Anglia was in the Medieval period the most populous part of the Innocently writing about my dressing-gownd. Tongue, there is a tendency to add excrescent –d to words. In East Anglia, in the dialect written, incidentally, by Chaucer as his native The second may carry on from the confusion ofĭ, ð or þ, where an aspirated –th sound disappears, but this does not explain No self-respecting English person would consider dropping it. This is a matter of contention too between English English and AmericanĮnglish as no self-respecting American would pronounce the ‘h’ on ‘herbs’ and Tendency to add excrescent H- to the beginning of names and excrescent –t or –dĪspirants and may be demonstrated in the usually exaggerated Cockney accentsĭelivered by writers where comic and low characters drop their ‘h’ and add anĮxcrescent ‘h’ to words beginning in a vowel. ‘m’ tends to a ‘b’ or ‘p’ -like sound so maybe it arose from a preponderance of However, if speaking in a rather nasal way, Hence, Sarah, or Sarra as it was usually transcribed becameĪnd ‘Pegg’ from Molly and Megg. ‘r’ is a difficult sound to say [and the Norman French found it particularly
Was small, dealing with the uncomfortable hard sound of ‘z’ by making it ‘l’ and
I would postulate that the form of the shortening of names may be drivenīy baby tongues trying to say their own name and falling over themselves Ĭonsider Queen Elizabeth II’s use of the name ‘Lilabet’ for herself when she Shorten names, for their own convenience. The main reason for the rise of some pet names is probably vocal laziness.
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