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Paul Carbuncle
@paulcarbuncle.bsky.social
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Folk-punk, onomastics, etymology, historical linguistics, real ale, blackbird song, and fairness. Editor of the EPNS Survey of Kent and co-host of Carrington Triangle Folk Club. Not an adult, according to BlueSky.
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High Peak ahoy!
September 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Let's party like it's 1925.
Poster for The Sherwood Shessions on Sunday 7th September, 5pm, at The Drinkery, 71 Haydn Road, Nottingham, NG5 2LA, hosted by Paul Carbuncle, with Nick Morland, Jeremy Galgut, and Michael Howard. Free admission. The picture is a black and white photo taken in Sweden in 1925, showing a young girl in a spotty frock sitting beside three fluffy owls perched on a length of wood. She may well be about to juggle them.
August 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Reposted by Paul Carbuncle
tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week’s Books pages in @theguardian.com
Image: A small, pretty English village. A girl with a bag on her shoulder runs towards a van on the other side of the village green. She says to herself "I've got to follow my heart and leave this sleepy village behind. A new life awaits on the open road, touring from town to town in a merry band of brilliant eccentrics!" Title: “Rebecca runs away to join the travelling library”
July 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Innit.
July 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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#oedantedatings

3-year antedating of gallow(s)-tree (sense 2) ‘iron support for a pot over a fire’ (in #OED from 1590)

Item one gallowtrye one pare of howkes & one landyron – 20d. (1587)

Old Place, New Perspectives: a History of the Manor House of Old Sleaford, Lincolnshire (2020), p. 102

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Photo of a large old red-brick fireplace containing a gallows-like framework from which to hang a cooking pot. Nothing's cooking at the moment.
July 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
paulcarbuncle.bsky.social
Great North Folk Festival this weekend, 11th–13th July, Botton Village, North York Moors, YO21 2NJ. I’m on at 6.30 and 10.50 on Friday evening (Foyer Folk both times), 2.10pm on Saturday (Joan of Arc Hall), and 3pm on Sunday (Joan of Arc Hall again). Sunshine and real ale forecast.
July 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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#oedantedatings

32-year antedating of burling-iron 'pincers for extracting knots from wool' (in #OED from 1530)

all the stuffe that longyth to my shope as wele the Walkers erthe as handylls and burlyngs yrnes (1498)

Will of William Halowton, fuller, in Early #Northampton Wills, 214
July 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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I beg your Parbery? substack.com/@paulcarbuncle
June 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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#oedantedatings

63-year antedating of ewe-lease 'pasture for ewes' (in #OED from 1874)

Wolverton Ewe-lees (1811) [in Charminster]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Dorset 1, p. 342
Photo of about twenty ewes grazing in a large lush green field, with rolling wooded countryside in the distance. There is, of course, one black sheep among the otherwise white flock.
June 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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#oedantedatings

42-year antedating of post-house (sense 1) 'inn or other building where horses are kept for the use of travellers' (in #OED from 1611)

le posthowsse ten’ voc’ clavelles (1569) [in Piddlehinton]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Dorset 1, p. 314
June 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Worrow and Macro, together at last. substack.com/@paulcarbuncle
June 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Critten! substack.com/@paulcarbuncle
June 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Vodden? substack.com/@paulcarbuncle
June 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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#oedantedatings

129-year antedating of tucking-mill ‘fulling-mill’ (in #OED from 1467–8)

la Toukyngmulle (1338) [in Horningsham]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Wiltshire, p. 442

curs’ aque apud la Toukyng Mull (1428) [in Turners Puddle]

Place-Names of #Dorset 1, p. 297

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June 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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#oedantedatings

76-year antedating of culver-house ‘dove-cote’ (in #OED from 1340)

le Culverhouse (1264)
Colverhouscroft (1270)

#EPNS Place-Names of #Wiltshire, pp. 428, 437
Photograph of an intact medieval dovecote sitting amongst the fields and hedges of Sibthorpe in Nottinghamshire. It is a stone-built circular tower, tapering as it rises in two stages, with a conical tiled roof. A doorway is visible at ground level.
June 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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#oedantedatings

145-year antedating of chalk-land (in #OED from 1941)

Sainfoin. This is the most valuable of all the grasses cultivated in this county: and is much grown on the chalk-land of the eastern part (1796)

John Boys, A General View of the Agriculture of the County of #Kent, p. 96
Black and white photo of the prominent chalk cross which was cut into a hillside at Lenham in 1922 as a war memorial. A tractor is at work in a field in the foreground, and neat rows of haycocks are visible.
June 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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#oedantedatings

36-year antedating of broadcast (adv. sense a.) 'scattered widely over a suface' (in #OED from 1832)

The constant practice of making summer-fallows in many counties for wheat, and sowing beans broad-cast after it, and then recurring to a fallow again ...

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In a cheery watercolour illustration, a gaily dressed farmer with curly white locks scatters seeds by hand over a field. His waist-high seedlip is hung around his neck. A plough-team of two horses is at work in another part of the field. We are drawn to the farmer's bright blue cravat, a distraction from the dead rabbit which droops from his jacket pocket.
June 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Good people of Nottingham, please join us for some music-making!
May 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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#oedantedatings

143-year antedating of cheese-chamber 'room in which cheese is dried or stored' (in #OED from c.1632)

j narke standyng in the chese chamber and oon of the newe small cheyers (1489)

Will of Isbell Geffron, Early #Northampton Wills, p. 152
Eight large round white cheeses sit on two wooden shelves. We catch a tiny glimpse of more cheeses on a shelf above. It all smells lovely, I'm sure.
May 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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#oedantedatings

77-year antedating of hunting-horn (in #OED from 1694)

Then he maid one of his servants go in unto the park and blow on ane hunting horne, bot assoone as the wyld beastes off divers sortes heard the blowing of the horne, they cam skipping ... (1617)

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A medieval hunting scene in open woodland on a bright day. A stag flees from a band of huntsmen, some on horseback, some with hounds. Three of the huntsmen are blowing curved horns.
May 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Anyone for Poppitt? substack.com/@paulcarbuncle
May 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
paulcarbuncle.bsky.social
This is a magnificent piece of work. Yksi kaksi kolme dialektologiaa!
schaljoh.bsky.social Johan Schalin @schaljoh.bsky.social · May 17
This linguistic sketch of KAJ’s song in Swedish dialect is now out, five pages with lyrics, English lyrics running in parallel and a commentary to the dialectal traits in its own column with hyperlinks.
#Eurovision2025
#ESC2025
#Eurovision
#Langsky
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
May 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Been digging into another surname - Dunningham. substack.com/@paulcarbuncle
May 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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An island of strangers? Just imagine British children's books without the work of migrants & their children – all of these & more!
www.sfsaid.com/2017/02/one-...
Graphic showing British children's book covers: Matilda, The Tiger Who Came To Tea, Meg and Mog, Coming To England, The Gruffalo, Who's Going On A Bear Hunt, Horrid Henry, Journey To The River Sea, A Monster Calls, How I Live Now, Noughts & Crosses, The Girl Of Ink & Stars, Tall Staroy, Oliver & The Seawigs, Face, Varjak Paw
May 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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"This Land Was Your Land" youtu.be/8EWRk23bY5A
Paul Carbuncle - This Land Was Your Land (Dave Collins cover, May 2025)
YouTube video by Paul Carbuncle
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May 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM