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How do you spell "Derby County"?


wixman1884

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Derby of course....! "Darby" is found on 18c maps and historic references but then since it is derived from the Town on the Der-went clearly it's spelt with a "E",.. Not to be confused with Terrence Trent "D'arby" who is an oxymoron.......Bad spelling, "Trent" wrong county ***** football team..... !!!

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Here's a silly one:-

Oh the grand old Duke McClaren,

he had a brilliant team,

he marched us up to the top of the league

and he marched us down again...

 

And when we were up, we were up,
And when we were down, we were down,
And when we were only half-way up,
We were neither up nor down.

Sit and stand appropriate to the chorus.....

Crap I know!

 

Marginally better than your spelling of Guinness.

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While the Jury is still out on how do you say Derby County I thought I might mention in passing that in Anglo Saxon English, Nottingham was called Snott .. The Ingham came later as that means people .. In translation it means the Land of the followers of Snott.

 

Correcto mundo, "Snotts" people, He was allegedly Anglo Saxon.... Snott ing ham.... Snotts water Hamlet - Snottingham,  Ing being by the water, ham being Hamlet.. abv......I'd imagine living in caves under a Forest damp would result in snotty dribblings.... some things never change.....Maybe we should send over some nice Wooly Snott rags for the poor hermitoids! :wub:

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