[NatureNS] re 'Hant's'

Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 12:44:56 -0300
From: David Patriquin <patriqui@DAL.CA>
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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
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