LL-L "Names" 2005.09.23 (11) [E]

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From: Kevin Caldwell <kevin.caldwell1963 at verizon.net>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2005.09.23 (04) [E]

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Names
>
> Cr?ost?ir:
>
> > I thought "Bedlam" was a Middle English garbling of "Bethlehem"?
>
> Well, I can't defend either theory, but this Bethlehem things sounds a bit
> folksy now, doesn't it?  Again, I assume that Bodle Lum is an attested
> older
> name.
>
> Cheers!
> Reinhard/Ron

The English word "bedlam", meaning a place of noisy confusion, is said to
come from the the name of an insane asylum, the Hospital of St. Mary of
Bethlehem, in London.  Probably nothing to do with any town named Bedlam.

Kevin Caldwell

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