[Sca-cooks] A challenge and a contest for the fine historical cooksof this list

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 11, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Kingstaste wrote:
> Wow, without checking any resources, or just the net and the OED?   
> Off the
> top of my head, I can do maybe half a dozen of these - if anyone  
> knows all
> of those well enough to get more than a few (without looking them  
> up!), I
> will be very impressed! lol

I got maybe 15 of them, including three or four semi-educated guesses.  
In a way, it's odd, but it seems like some of the later terms are  
actually more obscure than the Middle English ones...

Adamantius