AWAD - Halifax
Today's word is Halifax, after Halifax, a town in West Yorkshire, England. Earliest documented use: 1630.
NOTES:
Halifax, a town in England, today may be known for toffee, but at one time it had a reputation for harsh punishment. Even petty crime meant being sent to the gibbet (an early form of guillotine). The poet John Taylor wrote a poem “Beggar’s Litany” (1622) that includes the line: “From Hell, Hull, and Halifax, Good Lord, deliver us!”
Learn more at: wordsmith.org/words/halifax.html
AWAD - Halifax
Today's word is Halifax, after Halifax, a town in West Yorkshire, England. Earliest documented use: 1630.
NOTES:
Halifax, a town in England, today may be known for toffee, but at one time it had a reputation for harsh punishment. Even petty crime meant being sent to the gibbet (an early form of guillotine). The poet John Taylor wrote a poem “Beggar’s Litany” (1622) that includes the line: “From Hell, Hull, and Halifax, Good Lord, deliver us!”
Learn more at: wordsmith.org/words/halifax.html