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1 hour ago, PeterStiles said:

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Not usually, I believe.

 

Æthelræd Unræd in Old English - an oxymoronic pun: "noble counsel ill counsel". By a further pun "ill counsel" is mistranslated as "unready" in modern English. (Though there may be a direct connection between modern "ready" and Old English "ræd" since having taken advice is part and parcel of being prepared.) Perhaps we should call him Ethelready the Unready.

 

Ethel has the same root as Adele (cf modern German edel, noble). Would Adele have had the same popular success as Ethel?

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The worst rain that I have ever been in was in Adel, Georgia. Does that count for something? 😉

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.1301404,-83.4365734,3a,75y,330.42h,89.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTADEK22rrOKmyJ3LR5BeJw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

 

 

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