Yeah lets do that article I d always assumed barley came from parley to talk truce from parler to talk but I don t know I found a source about the origing of fainites soemwhere I ve found one site that mentions truce words in NZ where pax has become pecs There s odd discussions on the web with people swapping memories about it but not that many scholarly works certainly not along the lines of Opie I ve got a copy of Opie arriving soon I m impressed about the maps Do you draw it and then scan it or is it all much more brilliantly and technonolgically cleverer than that barley