Come on Eileen!

[northernladuk]

Name evolution is fascinating and has said above so many names mean the same: My name is in here: (clue it ain't John). Worth looking at if only for the Canary Islands' version for the English !

Yohanan name evolution - John (given name) - Wikipedia

Needs to be an extra line in there for 'Chav - changed spelling to be different'

[xoggoth]

Name evolution is fascinating and has said above so many names mean the same: My name is in here: (clue it ain't John).

I should remember ya name but forgotten. With your love of ancient history I'm surprised you haven't renamed yourself Plato or summit.

[Gibbon]

I should remember ya name but forgotten. With your love of ancient history I'm surprised you haven't renamed yourself Plato or summit.

If you've ever read his Republic you would know why, forerunner of the Jacobins, Lenin, Hitler, thoroughly depressing. He hated poets which is enough for me to never take him seriously.

Also I'm surprised my your gap in knowledge of Edward Gibbon , who wrote one of the finest pieces of English ever written. Edward Gibbon - Wikipedia

"In accuracy, thoroughness, lucidity, and comprehensive grasp of a vast subject, the 'History' is unsurpassable. It is the one English history which may be regarded as definitive...Whatever its shortcomings the book is artistically imposing as well as historically unimpeachable as a vast panorama of a great period."

I blame the cheap gin, spend a bit more for the good stuff! BTW the pictures of E Gibbon are an uncanny likeness