cyberdad wrote:
Surely if the original pub was serving ale to it's Anglo-Saxon patrons in 793 AD it would have been named Feohtan Hana or literally "Fighting male hens"
Never ceases to amaze me why the English don't properly preserve place names despite pretending to be all about "heritage"
Well… new people move in and change the name. I live quite close to York… the place was named by Celts, Angles, Romans and Vikings… the Vikings named it Yorvik which became York.
The Romans were in the village where I live… they built a pack horse bridge near here, but they don’t go a bundle on Romans around here now. Mistrust of “funny foreigners” trumps heritage any day of the week. In any case, there is no “English”… the stereotypical view of English (by the rest of the world) is very different from Yorkshire folk. But you can say that about any country, as I learned when I had a road trip around the US.
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