Quote Originally Posted by TheCurly View Post
I was speaking tongue-firmly-in-cheek A
I was always taught in school that any place name ending in FORD in basically Nog and there is a many here.
Funnily enough Junior and I were watching the game on Tuesday with an Arabic commentary and he commented (as a non-Spanish speaker) how Spanish it sounded to him.The Moorish influence on Spanish i would assume?
Nah, here in unconquered Wessex we have loads of -fords. Why, the other day I was in Greenford and Brentford.

It's Frisian, as it turns out, so Auld English.