and its easy to see how thorp, when spelled with the throrn--Þorp became Dorp in africaners.. i think of the movie The 39 steps-- in which a key to solving the mystery is a "a one shay dorp" (or a one horse town-- as it is translated in the movie.. though a shay and horse are not the same thing)

now days, we call such small hamlets a "one traffic light town" but CK seems to think such towns no longer exist.


my other obsession