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If I am not
sadly mistaken, I think this is a word notonly used by Billy Shakespeare,
but invented by him.
You will find much Old
English in
Kentucky Mountains, saying 'nought'
for
zero,etc. A few years ago, a team
from
Oxford University came to the
mountains, east of here, and studied the speech of locals. They concluded
that by English rules, our mountaineers spoke more pure
Old English and used it more
correctly, than did those in the north of England.
Middlesborough, Ky. on the
Tennessee and Virginia lines, was established by
Englishmen and its wide streets
and
old English architecture can still
be seen today. The English company that owned it and built it, still
maintains an office there to collect monies due the heirs of the original
English investors. The second golf tournament in the US was played on the
local
golf course. Actor Lee Majors was
partially reared by his Middlesborough
aunt. It sits about a mile from the
famed Cumberland Gap. It was formed just before 1900.
Hermit in the
Woods
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