"SCALP" OR " SCAUP " P
[To TR. EDITOR or TIM SPRCTZTOV1 SIR,—Travel abroad has prevented my replying to the question asked by the Director-General of the Ordnance Survey—Colonel Close—in your issue of May 2nd. 'Mr. Osborne Aldis, however, answers it in his letter to you of the 9th inst., in which he says " Scalp " and "Scoop" aro the same word. No doubt this is so, but at the same time— see Heslop's Northumberland Words—" Scalp" is the truer Northumbrian form, and it is a pity it was altered after 1896 to "Scamp." As a Guide one objects to place-names being altered or transferred, as not infrequently happens—e.g., the War Office style their new artillery camp at Birdhopecraig "Ad Fines," but this is the name " Richard of Cirencester" gave to the old Roman camp at Maxundon or Chew Green, seven miles away, centuries ago. Again, in the case of Newcastle- ton in Liddesdale, who does not prefer the ancient name of Copshaw or Copshawholm ? —I am, Sir, &c., TUE WRITER OF "THE GUIDES' RIDE ACROSS NORTHUMBERLAND."
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