Paul Carbuncle
@paulcarbuncle.bsky.social
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.
High Peak ahoy!
September 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
High Peak ahoy!
Let's party like it's 1925.
August 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Let's party like it's 1925.
An impressive offence to be sent off for.
July 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
An impressive offence to be sent off for.
That's the spirit! Merry Christmas, one and all.
July 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
That's the spirit! Merry Christmas, one and all.
#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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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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July 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
#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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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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Smith's analysis in the EPNS volume is open to interpretation. Other "Ruddock" place-names do seem to contain the surname (examples to follow), but this one's different, it's the full "Robin R" form. Ruddock has never been a Gloucs surname. Reddock forms with a front vowel are Scottish and locative.
July 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Smith's analysis in the EPNS volume is open to interpretation. Other "Ruddock" place-names do seem to contain the surname (examples to follow), but this one's different, it's the full "Robin R" form. Ruddock has never been a Gloucs surname. Reddock forms with a front vowel are Scottish and locative.
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
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.
#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
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
#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
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
I beg your Parbery? substack.com/@paulcarbuncle
June 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I beg your Parbery? substack.com/@paulcarbuncle
#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
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
June 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
#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
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
#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
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
#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
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
Worrow and Macro, together at last. substack.com/@paulcarbuncle
June 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Worrow and Macro, together at last. substack.com/@paulcarbuncle
#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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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
#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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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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#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
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
June 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
#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
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
#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
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
June 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
#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
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
#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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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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June 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
#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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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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Good people of Nottingham, please join us for some music-making!
May 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Good people of Nottingham, please join us for some music-making!
#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
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
May 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#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
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
#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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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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May 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
#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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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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South Devon is a Bastard hotspot. Of 418 bearers of the surname in Great Britain in the 1881 Census, 94 were in Devon. By 1997 there were only 30 bearers in the whole of GB, so it's a rapidly dying name.
May 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
South Devon is a Bastard hotspot. Of 418 bearers of the surname in Great Britain in the 1881 Census, 94 were in Devon. By 1997 there were only 30 bearers in the whole of GB, so it's a rapidly dying name.
Anyone for Poppitt? substack.com/@paulcarbuncle
May 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Anyone for Poppitt? substack.com/@paulcarbuncle