[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.
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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.
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>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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>From: Marc Carlson <marccarlson20 at hotmail.com>
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>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?
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>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.
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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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