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Nevertheless, the area around Godalming has been described as "one of the most religiously dominated landscapes in England" [6] and is and was a deeply pagan place. [7] On a hill just south of Godalming town there was once a religious site dedicated to the war god Tiw at Tuesley (Old English Tīws leah) meaning "Tiw's Clearing". [8]
Places in the ancient Godalming hundred of Surrey (with their probable meanings) include: Alfold ("old enclosure") Amberley (Imberlēah meaning "riverside clearing") Artington (from heorotingdon meaning "hill of the people of the sacred hart" [1] Bagmoor (possibly from the personal name Bacca + Moor, or perhaps meaning "badger's moor")
The oldest surviving record of Godalming is from a c. 1000 copy of the c. 880 – c. 885 will of Alfred the Great, in which the settlement appears as Godelmingum.The name is written as Godelminge in the Domesday Book of 1086, and later as Godelminges (c. 1150 – c. 1200), Godhelming (c. 1170 – c. 1230), Godalminges (c. 1220 – c. 1265) and Godalmyn (c. 1485 – c. 1625).
The building soon proved too small for public meetings, and in 1861, a public hall was constructed on Bridge Street, which was later extended to form Godalming Borough Hall. [ 3 ] Meanwhile, at the Pepperpot, a new cantilevered stair tower was added in the 1890s, [ 1 ] and the room on the first floor was used to accommodate the Godalming Museum ...
A hundred is a traditional division of an English county: the Oxford English Dictionary says that the etymology is "exceedingly obscure". The three Chiltern Hundreds were Stoke Hundred, Desborough Hundred, and Burnham Hundred. The area had been Crown property as early as the 13th century. [1]
The Vows presents Robert as offering Edward a heron at a royal banquet: "I believe I have caught the most cowardly bird...It is my intention to give the heron to the most cowardly one who lives or has ever lived: that is Edward Louis, disinherited of the noble land of France...because of his cowardice". [2]
Hyphenate all numbers under 100 that need more than one word. For example, $73 is written as “seventy-three,” and the words for $43.50 are “Forty-three and 50/100.”
A Swadesh list (/ ˈ s w ɑː d ɛ ʃ /) is a compilation of tentatively universal concepts for the purposes of lexicostatistics.That is, a Swadesh list is a list of forms and concepts which all languages, without exception, have terms for, such as star, hand, water, kill, sleep, and so forth.