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Services. 2026-01-19 05:43:08 - Paul D. Foy - AStatement I chanced to enquire as to the name of Sowerby and found that it was generally thought to originate from the Old English word 'sor' or 'sur' for a muddy place. This puzzled me, as the modern day place is on a considerable hill, and unlikely to be muddy. However what is now Sowerby Bridge straddles the fast flowing river calder and may well have been muddy. But the Celtic name for muddy also reminded me of the river Saar in Germany and the Celtic word sara for strong , swift or fast flowing. Thus there are two clear possibilities. Also it seems, to me, very likely that Sowerby had its origins (or at least the description of a topograpical feature (c. f. the origins of Birkenshaw, for example)) by the river in what is now Sowerby Bridge. There is a picture of the statement in the comments, portraying the results of my latest software project to colour words according to a bespoke algorithm (keeps me off the street :)). 2026-07-05 19:11:24 - Paul D. Foy - I've run out of the period of time whereby I can expect a free service from the professional version of this software. It's still working for me and there doesn't seem to be any interruption of quality in any way. It seems to be doing the same thing. Presumably at some stage I might get nagged to pay for something. Now I don't. I respect people that do good things and provide a good service, a good slick quality service, so I like to pay for things but I'm of limited means. I'll have to think how important it is for me to be able to drone on and simply have it written down like that, whether it's important that I do that in my older years or not. I'm also conscious of the fact that many of these AI things are just regurgitating somebody else's work, so it's just taking a cut on somebody else. Perhaps somebody else should be paying really but I don't know. I'll have a think about things. 2026-07-05 18:59:33 - Paul D. Foy - This investigation into the origins of names, place names, has probably now run its course. I've written several booklets and made many investigations into many place names and produced pamphlets, cards, all sorts of things. It's something that seems to have been hoovered up by AI, at least as far as my interest and involvement are concerned. One can simply type in "what is the origin of the place name this or that" into Google or ChatGPT and it will give you a fairly comprehensive description of the latest thoughts and research surrounding this. You can explore these as long as you like and you can add your own suggestions. Perhaps the work now is not doing this any longer but simply cataloguing it, simply writing it down. That again is not as big a job as it used to be, to tell the truth, because you can, as I am doing now, get a tool like Wispr Flow to simply talk it and it writes it down for you. It's not very time-consuming so one is running into problems of the purpose and the meaning of life in that somebody else is doing everything for you now. There are still a few things I haven't done in life but I don't think I'm going to be able to get AI to help out with those at all. It seems it's a rather difficult thing to get anybody to help out with, to tell the truth, but we'll see. 2026-01-19 14:21:01 - Paul D. Foy - Here is the wording of the statement:.  Post a comment: |