Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction) [Really?]
| From: | Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 17:39 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Salisbury also had
> an /r/ until ME times; the Latin form was Sorviodunum.
The formal name, I've heard, is still <New Sarum>.
(Old Sarum is a splendid ruined hillfort <dunum>, and [iirc] a former
Rotten Borough. New Sarum was created when the bishop quarreled with
the earl and moved from the hill to the plain.)
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Anton Sherwood -- http://www.ogre.nu/
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