[Northkeep] Castellan awards and titles

[Montega]

I like moppet.

On 6/14/07, kevinkeary at aol.com <kevinkeary at aol.com> wrote:
> I rather like moppet. Objections?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Carlson <marccarlson20 at hotmail.com>
> To: northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org
> Sent: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 2:22 pm
> Subject: Re: [Northkeep] Castellan awards and titles
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> From: kevinkeary at aol.com
> >...Youth Castellan: Elinor
> >Children's Castellan: Jacques Adieranson
> >Younger Children's Castellan: Navarre Mongosdottir
> >...
> >I have been calling the younger champions Children's Castellan and Youth >Castellan up until this >year, when the age brackets moved from two to >three. Youth should probably stay the same to >keep it in sync with the >current meaning of the word in other areas (like rapier). But I'd >heartily >entertain suggestions for one (short) word terms for the other >two. Thoughts?
>
> I like Youth and Children as terms.
>
> For the even younger group...
>
> According to Roget's other terms for "child" include bud, innocent, juvenile, moppet, tot, youngster. Informal: kid. Scots: bairn. Also: infant, babe, baby, bambino, neonate, newborn, nursling, toddler.
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> Bud sounds a little goofy to me, but no worse than the typical SCAism of "Small".
>
> Moppet does goe back to 1600 to describe a child.
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> Unfortunately, while the word "tot" is in use as early as 1425, it's a reference to a brain damaged simpleton. Using it for children is 18th century.
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> Youngster and Juvenile are kind of broad.
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> Kid goes back to 1200 as a term for a young goat, and 1599 as a term for a child.
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> Bairn, from the OE Bearn (a child, a son or a daughter) dates to Beowulf. Berne and Barn are the Middle and early Modern English forms. Bairn of course is the Braid Scots variant.
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> M/D
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