Talk:Althorp

conspiracy theory
Should we mention the conspiracy theory? Seems pointless without some more credible infomation.
 * Found these ==

A few sources here:
 * http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/46533.stm
 * http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1998/01/12/fhead.htm
 * http://worldroots.com/brigitte/diana1.htm
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The is said that: "is a country estate of about 14,000 acres (60 km2)". Cant be right, 1 hektare is 2,472 acres, so 16.000 acres is only 5.650 hektares, not 60 km2. Elijas Bijur (talk) 21:56, 7 August 2012 (UTC)


 * You've slipped the decimal point. A hectare is 2.47 acres (not quite two and a half), so 14000 acres is 5666 hectares or just over 56 and a half square kilometers. (Sixty km2 is 14826 acres.) Biblioteqa (talk) 05:40, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Thorp - daughter's settlement?
I was surprised to see that "thorp" is said to be related to Scandinavian "throp" or "thrupp" and in Danish probably meant "daughter's settlement". The etymology given here reflects my own understanding of the word's origins. See also Oxford dictionaries. It is true that many Danish place names ending in -rup or -trup are said to have originated in -torp which is sometimes interpreted as meaning an additional settlement for those stemming from a larger or more important community in the area. Perhaps this has been referred to (or mistranslated as) "daughter's settlement" in the literature. I can see that it might be said to mean "daughter settlement" (cf "daughter company") meaning "subsidiary settlement". However, I believe that many "-thorps" in the U.K. are probably more closely related to Dutch "dorp" or German "dorf" and fail to see why Althorp should be an exception. The British Library tells us that even in names of Scandinavian origin, "thorp(e)" simply means "homestead".--Ipigott (talk) 11:11, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

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Pronunciation
You state that Althorp is popularly pronounced "AWL-thorp". Does this mean that "AWL-thrup" is an affectation? Valetude (talk) 16:33, 27 September 2021 (UTC)