The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-03

A Very Curious and Interesfing Re
cord worth Preservipg-C"lIo
quiaI Chapges-The Wild Work
Made with Original Names.

auiaI Chapges-The Wild Work
Made with Origin Names.
Most men, and women, too, desire
fame or notoriety. Ye: q great name
may come to base uses. st. Etheldre-
da's name became shortened 10 ST,
Audrey, from whence comes the word
tawdry," signifyiug cheap and gaudy.
1t is said that the images of the SAINT
were so much over-dressed by her vo
taries that they thus unconsciously
furnished the English language with
this very expressive term. The word
was further endorsed by fairs hell
on St Etheldredss day, a; which
articles OF female fnery were sold. An
other sainted lady, who lived in the
same century, the Seventh. gives a
household name to the cat. "rahby
is said to come rom ST. Able. Two
towns in Eugland are named in her
honor, Tabler, but come from the cor
rupted name, "rab." Boston, a.
some few people know, is 81 Butolph's'
town. shortened. and there Ia in the
American as well az the English Bos-
ton, a street named "Rutolph, alter the
saint.
Among the most curious derivations
is the Turkish ns ne OF Cor slant noPIe,
Stambo The colloquial phrase among
the Greeks to designate the place was
"eis ten polin," ito the CITY, o. tins
the Turks made "Istsmpol, and finally,
Stamhoul. In an effort 10 produce
English words in Turks characters, a
Turkish scholar could get no nearer to
"scoundrer' than "asconderel.' The
transformation in this case is as curious
as Stamboul, pronounced l,timboul,
from els ten polr. York, from the
Latin Eboracum, would seem TO pre-.
ser at the first glance lttIe resemblance
to the original. The process o. change
in common usage was something as
follows: Ehoracum. Errauc, E)rior-
vic, Eorc, York. This is almo.t equal
TO the derivat on oi the namv OF a pickle
from Jeremiah King, Jerry King, Jer
King, girkiD. But colloquiAI changes
are net always to be de-pi,ed. They
mean history. The 1mmon expression,
"a game leg" for lame leg, " wruld At
first seem to be making game OF mis-
fortune. The true worl is gam" old
English meaning de ective. We have
Cambridges in great numbers in the
United States, 10 places where there is
neither a river, cam, nor bridge
Every machinist knows that a cam"
il the name given 10 piece Of ma
chinery which causes An eccentric mo-
ton. The river Cam ~ a crooked river.
Names OF places in this country are
meaningless in their application. except
az in the case OF old towns, showing
where the first settlers came from, l. ke
Chester and others. There are MANI
Nottinghams, but those who date their
letters in those towns do it without con.
sciousuess that they are noting the fact
that the respected ancestors OF some OF
us were trosfodytes and lived iD caves
Snotinegaham. the original name Of
y NOttlDR0dUlI In b'eiau'i rIE IItb lU'
home OF the dwellers in caves" aud
antiquarian examinations have found
traces Of the residences OF those cave
dwelle-s. Such are few OF the traDs.
formations to which words and names
were subject, while "a vet people were
unable to read. The sound changed
the orthogrsphy. and thus nearly every
trace OF the original disappearance 10
the course OF time. II the world were
in like condition now. with no printed
books and newspapers to preserve The
correct spelling, wild work might be
made even with prominent names
Fei-del.ly would hardly be recognized
by the founder, could he return.
Bawlt.mer would be q puzze to Lord
Baltimore. Two other Leading cIties.
when mentioned together. seems to have
in the soubd OF their names, a distinc-
ton as TO age, namely-New York and
Newer Leans-though the lstter loses
syllable 10 the second word to the en-
richment of the fr.t