Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2007 10:12:19 GMT
I appreciate reading old maps - they sometimes convey a meaning which until "then" was unknown, for example Carlops near West Linton is identified on old maps as "Carol's Loup". After researching I found that Carol had leeped from the high rock rather than marry against her will.
In a similar vein would members like to explain their knowledge of particular Salmon Beat or Salmon Pool names. Its an interesting subject and makes the fishing experience all the more worthwhile.
Of course members will wish to pose alternative meanings, perhaps not based on truth as we know it, in which case might I suggest the clever addition of (H) for humour after the name. For example ;
Dinnet (River Dee) (H)
Bought it
Tied it
Cast it
Caught it
Landed it
Returned it
= Dinnet
Commonty (River Dee)
COMMONTY, n. In Scots law, land belonging to two or more common proprietors; or a heath or muir, of which there has been a promiscuous possession by pasturage.
1828.mshaffer.com/d/word/commonty
Commonty is a noun which is uncountable — Describes a noun that cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and which therefore takes no plural form. Example: information. When speaking of information in English, we neither say that we have *one information, nor that we have *multiple information; there is no word *informations in English. We simply have information, since it cannot be counted. This is an example of a mass noun.
It has long been clear that one party owns the land of the Commonty (the Honourable Charles Pearson of Birse Forest Estate); and that two parties own the sporting rights over the Commonty (the Honourable Charles Pearson and the Nicol brothers of Ballogie Estate). The issue has been, however, that an indeterminate number of other parties in the parish still shared other extensive ancient land use rights over the whole Commonty.
www.caledonia.org.uk/land/birse.htm#Ancient%20Rights%20and%20Native%20Pinewoods
Alternative description
commonty
English
Etymology
1594 Marry, I will; let them play it. Is not a commonty a Christmas gambold or a tumbling-trick? — Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Induction (prologue), Scene 2
Noun
commonty (uncountable)
Shakespeare's jesting mispronunciation of comedy, put into the mouth of Christopher Sly.
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/commonty
Alternative (H)
"Is not you wading down Suicide any other than a Commonty, a post Christmas gambold or a tumbling-trick?"
MMcL to Yuri Shumakov 2006
Malcolm
In a similar vein would members like to explain their knowledge of particular Salmon Beat or Salmon Pool names. Its an interesting subject and makes the fishing experience all the more worthwhile.
Of course members will wish to pose alternative meanings, perhaps not based on truth as we know it, in which case might I suggest the clever addition of (H) for humour after the name. For example ;
Dinnet (River Dee) (H)
Bought it
Tied it
Cast it
Caught it
Landed it
Returned it
= Dinnet
Commonty (River Dee)
COMMONTY, n. In Scots law, land belonging to two or more common proprietors; or a heath or muir, of which there has been a promiscuous possession by pasturage.
1828.mshaffer.com/d/word/commonty
Commonty is a noun which is uncountable — Describes a noun that cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and which therefore takes no plural form. Example: information. When speaking of information in English, we neither say that we have *one information, nor that we have *multiple information; there is no word *informations in English. We simply have information, since it cannot be counted. This is an example of a mass noun.
It has long been clear that one party owns the land of the Commonty (the Honourable Charles Pearson of Birse Forest Estate); and that two parties own the sporting rights over the Commonty (the Honourable Charles Pearson and the Nicol brothers of Ballogie Estate). The issue has been, however, that an indeterminate number of other parties in the parish still shared other extensive ancient land use rights over the whole Commonty.
www.caledonia.org.uk/land/birse.htm#Ancient%20Rights%20and%20Native%20Pinewoods
Alternative description
commonty
English
Etymology
1594 Marry, I will; let them play it. Is not a commonty a Christmas gambold or a tumbling-trick? — Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Induction (prologue), Scene 2
Noun
commonty (uncountable)
Shakespeare's jesting mispronunciation of comedy, put into the mouth of Christopher Sly.
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/commonty
Alternative (H)
"Is not you wading down Suicide any other than a Commonty, a post Christmas gambold or a tumbling-trick?"
MMcL to Yuri Shumakov 2006
Malcolm