What is a wapentake?

A wapentake is an obsolete administrative area in the north of England. It is a sub-division of a riding. A wapentake originally indicated an assembly point where votes could be cast by the showing of weapons.

Wapentake seemed an apt name for a blog: a vague reference to a meeting place where views and arguments can be thrashed out with lexical weaponry. I grew up in what was the ancient wapentake of Staincross.

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