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CATEGORIES:Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
SUMMARY:Sunnyside - Dr Laura Wright (University of Cambrid
 ge)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151112T143000
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/61736
DESCRIPTION:The Oxford English Dictionary’s first reference to
  eggs sunnyside up is 1901.  Sunnyside was the tit
 le of a Charlie Chaplin film of 1919\, in which Ch
 arlie works as a farmhand.  Keep Your Sunnyside Up
 \, Up was a hit from the film Sunny Side Up of 192
 9\, written by Buddy De Sylva\, Lew Brown and Ray 
 Henderson\, as was On the Sunny Side of the Street
 \, written by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields\, 19
 30\, both depression-era songs being about maintai
 ning optimism in the face of adversity.  Sunnyside
  is a common British house-name\, associated with 
 suburban nineteen-twenties and thirties semi-detac
 hed housing.  The "British Royal Mail database":ht
 tp://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode available t
 o the public for looking up postcodes (that is\, n
 ot to linguists searching for house names) present
 ly returns 14\,703 hits for Sunnyside in the UK.  
 Yet prior to 1859\, so far as I can discover\, the
 re were no houses called Sunnyside in London at al
 l.\n\nThere is no scholarly history of British hou
 se names.  Place names have been studied for nearl
 y a century by the English Place-Name Society (beg
 un by the great Sir Allan Mawer (1879-1942)\, son 
 of a commercial traveller in fancy trimmings from 
 Bow) but the Scottish and Welsh Place-Name Societi
 es are very new and even the English volumes have 
 included farm names only sporadically.  Writing th
 e history of a house name is therefore a challenge
  in that sources have to be found.\n\nMy talk will
  be about the extraordinary history of Sunnyside\,
  a seemingly semantically transparent name\, which
 \, it turns out\, has been hiding in plain sight. 
  I begin by identifying the early adopters in Lond
 on\, finding what they have in common\, and follow
 ing those avenues back to earlier users.  Said ave
 nues lead far away both in place and in time\, to 
 outside the British Isles\, and into prerecorded h
 istory.
LOCATION:Queen's Building\, Emmanuel College
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