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Oxford colleges use quite a lot of antique jargon. Battel is also something related that took me a while to figure out. A battel is an account of items supplie
by nextos 2y ago
Oxford colleges use quite a lot of antique jargon. Battel is also something related that took me a while to figure out.
A battel is an account of items supplied by a buttery, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battel.
- QuercusMax 2y agoAnd they pronounce 'Magdalen' as 'maudlin' because that's briefly how people pronounced it hundreds of years ago.