[Sca-cooks] Kentwell and Removes

[Mark S. Harris]

> Bear replied to me with:
> I doubt the SCA had much to do with the common use of "remove" (except
> within itself).  It is much more likely that some of the sources
> referenced
> are Victorian and that because "remove" sounds "old tyme," the term was
> used
> without checking the pedigree.
Okay, thanks. I hadn't realized that it was often used this way outside
of the SCA. Like the discussions on the definition of "redaction" which
we've had, I thought that using the word in this way might be an
"SCAism".

Stefan
> >> Alys Katharine posted:
> >> Greetings.  Johnnae posted a lovely site: http://www.kentwell.co.uk/
> >> I just visited it and discovered that they are calling "courses"....
> >> tah-dah!  "removes".  So, I got out my citation and sent them a
> >> polite post that "remove" dates from the 1700s and shouldn't really
> >> be used when referring to Tudor courses.  I'm wondering if I will
> >> get a response...
> > Hmmm. And I'm wondering if there is a connection to the SCA or some
> of
> > our (perhaps earlier, perhaps contemporary) publications
> > involved/causing this.
> > Stefan

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