High Peak ahoy!

Let's party like it's 1925.

My cartoon for this week’s Books pages in @theguardian.com

Innit.

#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 [1/2]

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

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

#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

Worrow and Macro, together at last. substack.com/@paulcarbuncle

Critten! substack.com/@paulcarbuncle

Vodden? 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 (1/2)

#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

#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

#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 ... (1/2)

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

#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) [1/2]

Anyone for Poppitt? substack.com/@paulcarbuncle

This is a magnificent piece of work. Yksi kaksi kolme dialektologiaa!

Been digging into another surname - Dunningham. substack.com/@paulcarbuncle

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-...

"This Land Was Your Land" youtu.be/8EWRk23bY5A

I wrote this in 2014 when F**age was becoming a constant fixture on the BBC. Haven't played it for years. Now it sadly feels timely again. Here's the Starmer update of "Rivers of Blood". youtu.be/PXi69telJo0

I've resumed Substacking, if anyone fancies some new surname etymologies? Got a fresh batch on the way starting with Tatlock: substack.com/@paulcarbuncle

#oedantedatings 13-year antedating of #tennis court (in #OED from 1564) iij burgage ... with a tenys cowrt with a toft of grounde in whiche standeth a lytle house ... (1551) [in Bridport] #EPNS Place-Names of #Dorset 4, p. 360

Spain, you could do the funniest thing right now...

#oedantedatings 252-year antedating of stack-yard 'rick-yard' (in #OED from 1569) Stakkeyarde (1317) #EPNS Place-Names of #Nottinghamshire, p. 283

#oedantedatings 211-year antedating of horse-grass ‘area of grazing land sufficient to feed a horse’ (in #OED from 1493) le Horsgres (1282) #EPNS Place-Names of #Nottinghamshire, p. 282 OED’s earlier quote (ante 1000) belongs under garston ‘paddock’, not here.

Just had one of those wonderful ALT text moments...

#oedantedatings 79-year antedating of pinnocky ‘consisting of sticky red clay mixed with small stones’ (in #OED from 1875) Coomby and pinnacky soils are nearly under the same system [of crop-rotation] as the clay already described (1796) John Boys, A General View of the Agriculture of #Kent p. 73

#oedantedatings 165-year antedating of horse-monger ‘dealer in horses’ (in #OED from a.1400) Horsmongeres-streta (c.1235) [in Oxford] #EPNS Place-Names of #Oxfordshire, p. 38

#oedantedatings 78-year antedating of toll-hall ‘hall where tolls are collected, town-hall’ (in #OED from 1395) La Tolhalle (1317) [in Bridport] #EPNS Place-Names of #Dorset 4, p. 360

Twang twang warble warble slurp slurp

#oedantedatings 322-year antedating of fish-stall (in #OED from 1818) the ffyssh stall as yt standyth in the fysh market in the town of Northampton (1496) a ffysshstall now in the tenur of William Sywell fyssher (1503) Wills of John & Annes Esex, Early #Northampton Wills, NorthantsRS 42: 212,232

Beaver's Return - A new ltd edition print in my shop at www.stephencollinsillustration.com/shop/

#oedantedatings 196-year antedating of conifer (in #OED from 1851) Coniferslad (1655), Conifer Sladd (1728) [in Little Barningham] #EPNS Place-Names of #Norfolk Part 3, p. 58

#oedantedatings 124-year antedating of watermill (in #OED from 1371) le Watermulne (1247) #EPNS Place-Names of #Warwickshire, p. 331

Notts friends - free gig at the King Billy tonight! I'm told the start time is 6pm, but I don't believe it.

Matte är inte mitt starkaste ämne, men jag tror att han faktiskt minskar klyftan.

My analysis of what the Supreme Court ruling means: This ruling has a strong feeling of Corbett v. Corbett about it - that's the 1970 case in which the judge ruled that there is no such thing as a "change of sex" in law, with terrible consequences for trans rights. Like in Corbett, the ...

An old one from 2013 about celebrity space flights, which I am very much All For

Elk. Alces alces. Elk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#oedantedatings 100-year antedating of cherry-tree (in #OED from c.1400) Chirretreaker (c.1300) [in Calthorpe] #EPNS Place-Names of #Norfolk Part 3, p. 70

Next guests at Carrington Triangle (The Gladstone, NG5 2AW): Hase Waits on Weds 14 May.

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested

#oedantedatings 21-year antedating of bound-stone (in #OED from 1602) lapid’ voc’ the Bonde stones apud Cokes (1581) [in Winterborne Came] #EPNS Place-Names of #Dorset 1, p. 264

#oedantedatings 201-year antedating of watering-stone 'stone water-trough' (in #OED from 1788) Item one watring stonne one bucket a horse hocke & an old plowe – 2s. (1587) Inventory of Agnes Steele, in Old Place, New Perspectives: a History of the Manor House of Old Sleaford, Lincolnshire, p. 102