“we hear nothing of their butter”
in the course of routine pie debate in Another Place, i came across this TREASURE TROVE: cookery tips from the reign of good king dick!
pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør in FT /Pumpkin Publog • No Comments
31 January 2007
why did they think this and what made them stop?
“The taunt of having tails was a common accusation against the English in mediaeval times, and was even occasionally heard in the 17th century, in the epiphet, ‘The Tailed English’.” (footnote in British Folk Tales and Legends: A Sampler, Katharine M. Briggs, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977
pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør in FT /Proven By Science • 5 Comments