Worsted.After a town in Norfolk of the same name where this fabric was of old the staple industry.
Writes like an Angel.Dr Johnson said of Oliver Goldsmith: “He writes like an angel and talks like a fool.” The allusion was to Angelo Vergeco, a Greek of the sixteenth century, noted for his beautiful handwriting.
Wych Street.This now vanished thoroughfare was ancientlyAldwych, “Old Town,” so called because it led from St Clement Danes Church to the isolated settlement in the parish of St Giles’s-in-the-Fields,which in our time is known as Broad Street, Bloomsbury.
Wye.From the Welshgwy, water.
Wyndham College.The joint foundation at Oxford of Nicholas and Dorothy Wyndham of Edge and Merefield, Somersetshire, in 1611.