[Northkeep] Castellan awards and titles

[Chuck Kaun]

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
>
>I rather like moppet.  Objections?
>
>
>-----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
>
>
>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? 
>Â 
>I like Youth and Children as terms. 
>Â 
>For the even younger group... 
>Â 
>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. 
>Â 
>Bud sounds a little goofy to me, but no worse than the typical SCAism of 
>"Small". 
>Â 
>Moppet does goe back to 1600 to describe a child. 
>Â 
>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. 
>Â 
>Youngster and Juvenile are kind of broad. 
>Â 
>Kid goes back to 1200 as a term for a young goat, and 1599 as a term for a 
>child. 
>Â 
>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. 
>Â 
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