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| Author: | wyrearchaeology [ Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:56 pm ] |
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Dave, I wouldn't mind if we had massively overused the phone/internet, but we hadn't. I just reckon that BT are a bunch of money grabbing retards. Whatever the case, I'll be off-line from around the start of next week...but I am working on alternatives, so hopefully it won't be for too long. |
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| Author: | Jayne [ Sun Jun 28, 2009 12:54 am ] |
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Jayne wrote: Hi! Where does the word 'butt' originate for water butt? DaveH wrote: Oxford Etymol suggests it's from Anglo Norman 'but' in turn from Old French 'bout' from Latin 'buttis' and maybe Greek 'buitne' meaning some sort of wine flask. - you did ask!
So, basically they were hoping their water from Heaven would be somehow turned into wine?  
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| Author: | DaveH [ Sun Jun 28, 2009 4:47 pm ] |
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Maybe - wine was always safer that water in olden days - I try to stick to this too. I misread the Greek words however - it should have been butine or perhaps putine - an 'osier covered flask'. Interestingly (ok to me!) 'bottle' derives from French 'bouteille' and from Latin 'butticula' meaning little butt. So even over a thousand years ago someone was probably asking 'Does my butt look big in this osier?' |
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| Author: | History Hunter [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:14 am ] |
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I've just found this in a book about old field names ... Butt(s): (1) [ME butte] section of a common arable field which is shorter than other pieces in the same furlong, owing to the irregular shape of field boundaries, or owing to two furlongs meeting at an angle; (2) [OE butt] tree-stump, land covered with stumps of trees; (3) [ME butt] mound, site of archery targets. |
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