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3 unusual facts about Kentish


Middle English phonology

#Dialect mixture between Old English dialects (e.g. Kentish) that voiced initial fricatives, and the more standard dialects that didn't do this.

Stalisfield Green

The pub serves only Kentish beers from its traditional hand pumps; regularly featuring ales from Hop Daemon (Newnham), Gadds (Ramsgate) and Goachers (Maidstone).

Sussex Pond Pudding

Some cooks like to add currants to the filling, but this would make it a Kentish Puddle Pudding or Kentish Well Pudding.


Æthelberht of Kent

Sources for this period in Kentish history include The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, written in 731 by Bede, a Northumbrian monk.

Battle of Maidstone

The Kentish Royalists assembled outside Maidstone at Penenden Heath with over 10,000 men raised for the Earl of Norwich.

Ealdwulf of East Anglia

The pieces attributed to East Anglian production are found alongside others mainly of Kentish, East Saxon, and Frisian or Netherlandish types, reflecting external communications with those centres.

Ethnogenesis

People in Romanian Moldova call themselves Moldovans, as subethnic denomination, and Romanians, as ethnic denomination (like Kentish and English for English people living in Kent - but the analogy is incomplete as "Kentish" only applies on the western side of the River Medway; on the eastern side are the Men and Maids of Kent).

HMAS Patricia Cam

Kentish was flown to Dobo in the Aru Islands where he was interrogated, including the frequent use of beatings, for several weeks, before being executed by his captors on or about 4 May.

Kentish Post

However, in May of the same year another young recent printing apprentice from Canterbury, James Simmons, started to publish a rival twice-weekly paper called the Kentish Gazette.

Kieran Kentish

Kieran Kentish (born 29 August 1987) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays college soccer in the United States for John Brown University, as a defender.

Kentish began his club career in Anguilla with the Roaring Lions, before moving to the United States in 2007 to play college soccer for John Brown University.

Lisa Andreas

Andreas has also worked with the Kent Police by performing to her peers at Snap shows in Kentish schools.

Mohamed Nur

He also established and ran the Kentish Town Somali Welfare Association, the first such Somali community organization in Kentish Town.

The Kentish Hotel

The Kentish Hotel has stood the test of time as being one of the most famous established watering holes in the Franklin area since it was first granted its licence to sell liquor in 1853.

William I, Marquess of Montferrat

Various legendary assertions about his Saxon and Kentish origins and the origins of his wife have been met by the definitive Dizionario Biografico with the pronouncement: Ma tali asserzioni non sono ancora state seriamente coinprovate da documenti: "But such assertions are not yet seriously backed up by the documents."


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