LL-L "Names" 2009.09.01 (04) [EN]

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From: heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk <heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: new string "placenames"

from Heather Rendall heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk
Dear All
Could you please help?
My local history group has been researching a medieval estate in our
village. It began life being called The Rugge
This has come down to us variously as:-
the Ridge ( most often)
Rodge (Hill)
and Rugg's Hole / Place
I can understand how Rugge>> Ridge.
I am interested that a mere mile away the same word has become Rodge
But I cannot understand how the hard 'gg' of Rugg's Hole/Place has been
retained!
We have many different spellings for the estate between 13th and 15th
century including 'Richalhide' where the 'hide' = a new estate bought and
added to the original one. This would seem to show that c 1400 the Rugge >
Rich    and the velar had softened.
So why should we have a single instance of a hard 'gg' remaining?
Any thoughts or explanations gratefully received.
Many thanks
Heather
Worcester UK

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