Re: USAGE: [T] -> [f] (formerly ChineseDialectQuestion)

michael poxon scripsit:

> but I think you'll find that "Beaulieu" is also a 'snob spelling' of the
> placename meaning 'clearing where bees were kept' or something similar in
> OE, say 'beo-laeg' (not sure how to reproduce ae-ligature-plus-macron!).
Wow.  The Saxon face peers out from under its Norman cloak.  (Is it
true that England is still ruled by the Anglo-Norman Ascendancy?
See http://www.dur.ac.uk/martin.ward/gkc/books/secret-people.html .)

In a footnote in the new edition of Tom Shippey's _The Road to
Middle-Earth_, he points out that the placename "Roseberry Topping" in
the Northriding conceals its etymology well:  Roseberry < Oðinesbeorg,
'Odin's mountain'!  This book is full of cool things like this:  Akeman
Street, a footpath in Oxford, turns out to be the old Roman road to
Acemannesceaster < Aquae Sulis, known even in OE times as plain Bath.

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