. Records by Spade and Terrier. Roman Pottery found in Rectory Field Trench. See pages 14 and 16. PLACE NAMES. 33 has outlived their altered spelling, and can now be quoted asrevealing their true derivation. In fact the vernacular pro-nunciation has lagged behind the advanced spelling, and so,in military phrase, has kept up communication with the base. Place Names. Another reason why these local names become so cor-rupted is the natural wish to assign a plausible meaning towords, to make them no longer sounds, but words, or as wecall them, proper names. No cause has been so fruitful oferror as
. Records by Spade and Terrier. Roman Pottery found in Rectory Field Trench. See pages 14 and 16. PLACE NAMES. 33 has outlived their altered spelling, and can now be quoted asrevealing their true derivation. In fact the vernacular pro-nunciation has lagged behind the advanced spelling, and so,in military phrase, has kept up communication with the base. Place Names. Another reason why these local names become so cor-rupted is the natural wish to assign a plausible meaning towords, to make them no longer sounds, but words, or as wecall them, proper names. No cause has been so fruitful oferror as this natural but hasty attempt to explain from thevernacular, that is, the common present use, and to bringinto harmony with a supposed etymology, names of placeswhose real origin must be sought in the speech of past daysand dead languages. Take Weary-all Hill, for instance, nearGlastonbury : this is the modern version of Wyrral, a Celticname descriptive of a hill-top, but the stiffness of the climbhas suggested to a speculati
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