Tuesday 12 February 2019

Fieldwork



Some names recorded for fields in England, with explanations.

Eight Day Math - meadow requiring eight days to mow.
Pasty Crust - field with brittle soil.
Handkerchief - small field
Seldom Seen - remote field
Australia - ditto
Happersnapper - 'enclosure with a wicket gate'
The Psalms - 'land on which the psalms were recited during the bound-beating ceremony'
Rumps and Buttocks - 'alluding to convex configurations'

And a selection from my favourite category: 'Derogatory names for unprofitable or unfertile fields.'

Famish Acre
No Man's Friend
Labour in Vain
Purgatory
Raw Bones
Rats' Castle
Bare Arse
Thin Porridge
Terrible

All these from the excellent dictionary 'English Field-Names', by- in a piece of extraordinarily on-the-nose nominal determinism- John Field.


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Unknown said...

Are you trying to get into farm business? Don't, you'll feel and sound like Archers characters. ;)

Alex C said...

:-) To add to this - a handful of the names of fields used for playing pitches at Eton College:
Agar’s Plough,
Dutchman’s,
The Triangle and
Mesopotamia (aka messpots)
Cheers
Ale

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This is exactly the sort of thing I mean when I say cleverness is valued in British culture – it takes different forms in different social strata and contexts, but it's all cleverness.

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I'm so impatient of listening to the new season of JFSP, I'm quite curious of how you will use all this. Congrats on the awards, by the way! I wish so much you'd tour in France - preferably in Toulouse... It's great to be able to listen to Radio 4 over the internet in the meantime.

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Anonymous said...

There's a field near me called the Humpty Dumps. It's just as you might imagine it to be.

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In Norfolk dialect the word "Loke" means "A lane leading to a field" (i.e. a mud track).

There's several roads named Loke too: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/loke/@52.6337044,1.3012599,13.25z
I first saw the word walking past Thor Loke, so assumed it was pronounced Thor Loki.

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