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Jo Walton  
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 More options 20 Oct 1998, 08:00
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.composition
From: J...@bluejo.demon.co.uk (Jo Walton)
Date: 1998/10/20
Subject: Re: Blast it, how do I make names sound how I want them?
In article <F152zn....@kithrup.com> djhe...@kithrup.com "Dorothy J Heydt" writes:

> In article <na.2a13b64898.a700d0jul...@argonet.co.uk>,
> Julian Flood  <jul...@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

> >Not in Coney Weston, a few still say 'it snew somethin terrible las week'.
> >As they and their ancestors have been here since the Ice Age I bow to their
> >seniority.

> Where is Coney Weston and how would you describe their ancestors?
> 'Cause the Saxons only came in as the Roman Empire was falling.
> Others even later.  Interesting survival, though.

It's in Suffolk, not far from Bury St. Edmonds. It's not in Johnson's
:Placenames of England and Wales: which means it's _probably_ not in
Doomesday, as he mentions most of what is but he does miss some. It's
unlikely to be other than a Saxon settlement, going by the village
pattern around there, but it could be older, road atlases aren't the
best tool for telling.

When the mammoths came a-thundering off the glaciers in the North
we were huddled here in Coney and we never ventured forth.
We ignored it in our village when the wind of changes blew
but if it was getting parky out, we _always_ said "it snew".

We were here in Coney Weston when the Beaker People came
(and we've still got these here beakers and they still look just the same)
we have weathered out the bloody Celts, the bloody Saxons too,
and the useless bloody Normans and we _always_ said "it snew".

There was Shakespeare, from the Midlands, and Milton's London ways.
There was Doctor Johnson's little book and his newfangled ways.
There was three wise clerks of Oxenford, fiddling with something new
but here in Coney Weston we have _always_ said "it snew".

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