[Northkeep] Castellan awards and titles

kevinkeary at aol.com kevinkeary at aol.com
Thu Jun 14 14:11:51 PDT 2007


To my ears, bairn translates as baby.  Maybe that's my ignorance.  Toddler seems to describe children younger than 3 to 6, which is the age category.  Moppet seemed to suggest about the right age range.  But again, that may be me misinterpreting.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Kaun <jack_a_lope31 at hotmail.com>
To: northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org
Sent: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 3:56 pm
Subject: Re: [Northkeep] Castellan awards and titles


Bairns works for me....moppet although yes a period term, is similar enough to muppet to be annoying. 
 
>From: kevinkeary at aol.com 
>Reply-To: The Barony of Northkeep <northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org>To: northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org 
>Subject: Re: [Northkeep] Castellan awards and titles 
>Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:33:36 -0400 
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>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...  
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>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".  
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>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.  
>  
>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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