Lincolnshire
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Lincoln + -shire, first recorded in the 11th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɪŋkənˌʃɪə/, /ˈlɪŋkənˌʃə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɪŋkənʃəɹ/, [ˈliŋkʰə̆nʃɚ], /ˈlɪŋkənˌʃɪɹ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Lincolnshire
- A county of eastern England bordered by South Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and the North Sea.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 263:
- The king experienced his first attack in autumn 1788, and as his condition worsened and the physicians-in-ordinary proved unable to cope or cure, the Reverend Dr Francis Willis (1717–1807), a clergyman doctor who ran a madhouse in Lincolnshire, was called in.
- 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):
- On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services.