Talk:Margaret Gelling

modern placenames
"A particular placename of modern evolution is Spaghetti Junction, also of navigational significance, being a major and complex motorway intersection in the city in which she lives. " That is a Gelling paraphrase actually, and highly relevant, although the wording might be better. Midgley (talk) 19:29, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * From the Economist obit.:  "Reading Spaghetti Junction... Most of the place names of England had been bestowed ...  by ordinary peasants ... That habit had long died out; but as a resident of Birmingham (“village of Beorma’s people”) for most of her life, she liked to think that Spaghetti Junction, the giant intersection of roads just north of the city, was a solitary modern example of the will of the people expressed in a name."  So you'll want to reverse the change at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret_Gelling&oldid=123070544  by someone at 86.152.150.170  Midgley (talk) 17:47, 16 May 2009 (UTC)


 * "`You know about Spaghetti Junction?' she asked, collecting me at the railway station and edging nervously out into the traffic. `It is the only modern place-name that evolved like a traditional name - just emerging rather than being named by an official. I can't think of any others. Can you?' (Any suggestions, please, on a postcard.)" The British Archeology article referred to.  The _only_ placename of its sort?  Midgley (talk) 22:28, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Death
Lacking sources - this would seem to be quite important, and a quick web search has found nothing. 90.210.0.254 (talk) 22:54, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

The obituary in the Guardian mentions an illness. that said, I don't see that we need a separate death section--all the real information there is in the dates of birth and death at the beginning of the entry. So I'm removing it. Alarichall (talk) 13:29, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

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Cyprus
It was actually two other members of the expedition who were sorting finds in Kyrenia Castle. They were an advance party. The Gellings' travel was interrupted. Spaghetti Junction is still interesting though. Midgley (talk) 14:40, 26 September 2021 (UTC)