Quid dicamus de illo `Billea, St' ?
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Ampleforth Abbey, York
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From: Bill East <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: 06 March 1999 10:10
Subject: Re: Ste Fripette
>
>>
>>>Graham Jones wrote:
>Alongside Martin's St Shotts, I offer from Gloucestershire in England the
>>>>delectable St Cloe.
>>>>
>>>>Who? St Cloe, as in 'a clearing made by burning'. The Old English
>>>>_senget_/_senged_, from which we get the modern English word 'singed',
>>produced
>>>>_Sengetlege_ in the tenth century (the _lege_ represents _leah_,
>>'clearing'),
>>>>which by 1368 had become _Seintcleye_.
>>>>
>>>>As they say in Gloucestershire, 'Don't 'ee mess wi' Saint Cloe. Her'll
>>turn 'ee
>>>>to cinders' :-) [That's when they've got their smocks on, and straw
>>between
>>>>their teeth.]
>
>Similar "manufactured" saints include St Epney, St Ockwell, St Anmore and
St
>Anwell in London; and those patrons of the Underground, St Raphanger and
St
>Andclear of the Doors. Near York we have St Rensall; the Midlands have St
>Ourbridge, and Norfolk has St Iffkey.
>
>Bill.
>
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