Re: Smile like a cheshire cat Posted by Henry Williams on December 19, 1999
In Reply to: Smile like a cheshire cat
posted by Stella Sach on December 17, 1999
: I belive the true origin of smile like a cheshire cat actually
comes way before Lewis Carroll wrote his books on Alice's adventures
in Wonderland. I belive it was a court jester whose name was Cat
Kaitlin from Cheshire. People wanted to be as happy as the court
jester and the term smile like the Cheshire cat was this a tribute
to him.
: Let me know
All my efforts to verify that a court jester named Cat Kaitlin
ever existed have come to nought. However Kaitlin is a a variant
of the Celtic name Kathleen and also has Greek origins. It certainly
does not appear very high in the ranking of popular family names
in Cheshire: in fact I've not found it at all, not even skulking
at the bottom of the list.
Where am I going wrong? Where's the evidence?
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