LL-L 'Etymology' 2006.10.05 (07) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 05 October 2006 * Volume 07
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From: Heather Rendall [HeatherRendall at compuserve.com]
Subject: LL-L 'Etymology' 2006.10.05 (05) [E]

Message text written by INTERNET:lowlands-l at LOWLANDS-L.NET
>Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx<

And even kinder greetings back to you Luc!

That information is just great and has set my mind racing.

'sic' could then originally have meant those lands on either side of a
brook/stream/river that drained the land or through which the water
draining from the land filtered itself!

In Ortwin's The Open Fields a study of the ridge & furrow lands of
Laxton, Notts the word has come to mean both the unploughed headlands and
any unploughable bit of land - and he gives the example of a small gully (
with probably a winterbourne in it) that snakes across a field. Obviously
ploughing had to stop just before the edge - leaving a meandering strip of
unploughed grass and gully = sike

But which came first: the unploughed headland or the unploughable gully
into which the field obviously drained!

I was re-reading the A/S charters that use the word 'sic' and they hardly
ever use the same form twice. I have got them typed up on another computer
and will transfer over here asap.

Many thanks for all these gems

Heather

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