Comments on: Monthly Gleanings, Part 1: October 2011 http://blog.oup.com/2011/11/oct-2011/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 24 May 2013 00:55:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: OUPblog » Blog Archive » The deep roots of gaiety http://blog.oup.com/2011/11/oct-2011/#comment-267042 OUPblog » Blog Archive » The deep roots of gaiety Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:51:21 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=19228#comment-267042 [...] Some time ago, I devoted a post to the origin of the word bigot. Its etymology was discovered in a short review that no one seems to have read. Before that I told a similar story about conundrum. Quite naturally, French, Spanish, and German scholars have never heard of Frank Chance, for he published his letters only in Notes and Queries and occasionally in The Academy. But Skeat and Murray read this periodical and regularly contributed to it, so that it is incomprehensible why they missed Chance’s conjecture. [...] [...] Some time ago, I devoted a post to the origin of the word bigot. Its etymology was discovered in a short review that no one seems to have read. Before that I told a similar story about conundrum. Quite naturally, French, Spanish, and German scholars have never heard of Frank Chance, for he published his letters only in Notes and Queries and occasionally in The Academy. But Skeat and Murray read this periodical and regularly contributed to it, so that it is incomprehensible why they missed Chance’s conjecture. [...]

]]> By: Roland Schuhmann http://blog.oup.com/2011/11/oct-2011/#comment-236079 Roland Schuhmann Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:23:30 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=19228#comment-236079 Thank you for the interesting comments in the gleanings! To take up your statement on the ethnogenesis of the 'Germans' I just want to show what recently could be found in the German media. There was earlier this year found a hoard of gold in Diepholz that is dated between 2000 and 1200 BC, but of course was attributed to an 'early Germanic tribe' (cp. http://www.ndr.de/regional/niedersachsen/emsland/goldfund107.html). Thank you for the interesting comments in the gleanings!

To take up your statement on the ethnogenesis of the ‘Germans’ I just want to show what recently could be found in the German media. There was earlier this year found a hoard of gold in Diepholz that is dated between 2000 and 1200 BC, but of course was attributed to an ‘early Germanic tribe’ (cp. http://www.ndr.de/regional/niedersachsen/emsland/goldfund107.html).

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