Author Topic: Grandad or Granddad? ( spelling)  (Read 107969 times)

Offline stanmapstone

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 25,798
    • View Profile
Re: Grandad or Granddad? ( spelling)
« Reply #18 on: Monday 23 February 09 14:28 GMT (UK) »
This is really interesting,  I did not realise how long 'grandad' had been in use.

The Oxford English Dictionary gives these dates for the first use in print.
1819 grand-dad
1865 granddad
1889  Grandad,
1698 Grand Dada
1871 grandada

Stan
Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Offline FaerieFan

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 44
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Grandad or Granddad? ( spelling)
« Reply #19 on: Monday 23 February 09 16:30 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Stan,  I love words and their histories. Fascinating stuff.

FF
Noon:  Middx. Ratcliffe, Shoreditch, Stepney, Mile End and Essex

Perry: Shoreditch

Twitchett:  London

Trim / Trimm:  London