In an enticing extra detail @emmettaylor.bsky.social has pointed out that English "the fae" is used in the World of Darkness "Changeling" TTRPG from c.1995. Alternative anglophone origin stories appreciated, I think we can crack this!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changel...

'No country, in the past or in the present, has ever succeeded in extirpating abortion by the severest legal penalties: what has been done is to create a criminal occupation, and a largely criminal class; to endow blackmail; and to ruin the health and sanity of many women'. Stella Browne in 1917

I work with English manor court rolls and this is so true - especially as manorial records often have slightly different abbreviations/wording in the same formulae across different manors or even scribes. It's always nice when you find the one scribe who bothered to write a word out in full(-ish)!

'Fewer than half are even fully aware that universities conduct research.'

Real indictment of universities' strategies and comms this. An own goal that could and should be rectified. Engaging broad publics with research is not rocket science. And if it were, universities have rocket scientists. 3/3