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Index of Subjects By accident, as I am prone to do! Quoting Doug Linzey <doug@fundymud.com>: > On 09/07/2013 11:33 AM, James W. Wolford wrote: >> Hi, Dave. I'm curious about you putting an apostrophe in "Hant's" >> -- was that on purpose, or by accident? I have tried to find out >> the origin of 'Hants" in Hants County and gotten nowhere yet. Do >> you know anything about it? Cheers from Jim > > Jim, here is a quote from the Wikipedia entry for Hants Co. (an > apostrophe would be wrong): > "The county of Hants was created June 17, 1781, and consisted of the > townships of Windsor, Falmouth and Newport. Originally getting its > name from the County of Southamptonshire in England, now known as > Hampshire, and abbreviated to Hants, the County was established out > of part of what had been Kings County." > > And here's the explanation from the Hampshire (UK) website: > ""Hampshire" is often abbreviated in written form to "Hants" and > which sometimes gives rise to puzzlement. The abbreviated form is > derived from the Old English Hantum plus Scir (meaning a district > governed from the settlement now known as Southampton) and the > Anglo-Saxons called it Hamtunschire. At the time of the Domesday > Book (1086) this was compressed to Hantescire." > > Cheers, > Doug > > David Patriquin http://versicolor.ca
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