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Lafayette C Curtis
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 Posted: Tue 18 Apr, 2017 2:19 pm Post subject: Where did the "gamberson" misspelling come from? |
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Lately I've been seeing more and more people misspelling "gambeson" as "gamberson" and it's frankly starting to annoy me. Alternative spellings based on medieval ones like "gambeis" or "wambeis" are understandable, but why "gambeRson?" What kind of unprintable unprint started this foolishness?
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Matthew Amt
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Oh, that's nothing, you should hear what people do to Latin/Roman terminology. Pili instead of pila, any number of variations on lorica segmentata, caligulae, Romanes eunt domus, you name it.
And the abuses to the dignity of the Greek language? Forgeddaboudit.
Matthew
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Dan Howard
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brigandine, bregander, bregandere, brigandyron, bringandyne, brigantayle, all appear in various texts.
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen and Sword Books
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J. Douglas
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Oops! I am very guilty of this. 
Right, so it's Gambeson?
I think I got the spelling form a video by shadiversity on YouTube.
~JD (James)
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J. Douglas
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| J. Douglas wrote: | Oops! I am very guilty of this.
Right, so it's Gambeson?
I think I got the spelling form a video by shadiversity on YouTube. |
Scrap that I didn't.
I've got no idea where I got that spelling from at all.
~JD (James)
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Mark Moore
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I've heard people say 'gambeRson' in spoken conversation. It could be depending on where one is from. My wife was born and raised in Wisconsin, and sometimes I can -barely- understand a word she says. ....McM
''Life is like a box of chocolates...'' --- F. Gump
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Matthew Amt
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| Mark C. Moore wrote: | | My wife was born and raised in Wisconsin, and sometimes I can -barely- understand a word she says. ....McM |
That's because she's your *wife*...
I remember when I was very little, I was surprised to learn that "Chicargo" was spelled without an "R"! No idea where I picked that quirk up, we were never a family that added r's, usually.
Matthew
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Mark Moore
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One of her best is the word 'known'....she ads an 'e' between the 'w' and the 'n'....'knowen'.  She also says 'boughten', as in: "Gosh, dear, this pie is good. Is it home-made?"---''No, it's boughten from the store." ....McM
''Life is like a box of chocolates...'' --- F. Gump
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J. Douglas
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| Mark C. Moore wrote: | | One of her best is the word 'known'....she ads an 'e' between the 'w' and the 'n'....'knowen'. She also says 'boughten', as in: "Gosh, dear, this pie is good. Is it home-made?"---''No, it's boughten from the store." ....McM |
Never come to Northern Ireland, my friend. You'd catch your death of accents!
~JD (James)
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Mark Moore
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You would likely do the same here in East Texas....US Southerners *certainly* speak a different lingo. .....McM
''Life is like a box of chocolates...'' --- F. Gump
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Dan D'Silva
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Same place we get marscapone cheese, around Fort Warshington.
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Kel Rekuta
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I've noticed it more often on SCA related forae. Many SCA focused DIY quilted garment articles have reinforced that misspelling of gamebson.
Then there is "spaulder" versus "spaudler." ;-)
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Sarah O
Location: BC Canada Joined: 29 Apr 2017
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Jee you should read some of the medieval inventory counts, every single one of them has different spelling for their items, and its all phonetically spelt. It's pretty horrendous so I can see how many alternate versions of spelling could arise for such an old piece of garb
if you look at some old blacksmiths inventories, the word nail is spelt about 10 different ways: naille nayl naeyl naylle nael nayle
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This is a standard topic