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A to Z of Historical names.

Galja said:
RObbity, One wonders if he earned the sobriquet during his first reign and resolved it by the second?
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According to Wkipedia:
"Unready" is a mistranslation of the Old English word unræd (meaning bad-counseled), a twist on his name "Æthelred", meaning noble-counseled. It should not be "unprepared", but rather "ill-advised".

I did wonder if the "Unready" was a reference to the fact that he was only a child when he first came to the throne, so he would possibly have been unready at that point to take on his regal responsibilities.

Robbity
 
nomoredonuts said:
My keyboard doesn't have an Æ key!
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But my PC has a nifty character map option that allows me to copy and paste all these fancy characters and accents so I can be a right smarty pants and show off to the likes of you!

We used to use ALT keyboard codes at work mainly for mathematical and Greek symbols, but I recently found this option (http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/charmap.html) and it sits on my start menu now with my calculator so I can play at being a high tech geek when I get fed up being a miserable old diabetic ...

Robbity
 
Jamboree - specifically 1st World Scout Jamboree, held 1920.

(I always thought that jamboree was originally an Australian Aboriginal word but apparently not!)
 
Oppenheimer

dum Spiro spero
 
Rasputin

dum Spiro spero
 
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