preferably medieval, for your mother’s first husband, if you’re her children by her second husband? If I were you I wouldn’t ask why, because it would take me half a history book and two family trees to explain…

Emma

Emma, this question immediately brought to mind one of my favourite words, yclept, which I still haven’t ever managed to use. So I googled it and found this site. Don’t know if it answers the question, but it might help.

Dee

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-ycl1.htm

Dee, what a great site, thank you. And yes, yclept is a very good word.

Emma

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JB