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Topic Originator: istvan kozma
Date: Sat 23 Sep 22:47
It`s been a while since my original thread on the origins of the Pars.
But I went on the heritage site and am delighted to see that it`s been updated.
https://daht.org.uk/story.php?t=Origins_of_club_nickname&ID=2493
KOZMA
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Topic Originator: onandupthepars
Date: Sun 24 Sep 20:41
If anyone is interested in pursuing our nickname`s origin further, it`s possible somebody could have responded to `East Ender`s` remarks in the Dundee Evening Telegraph of Tuesday 11 March 1913, when he wrote that it`s an abbreviation of `Paralytics`and is inextricably linked to `Athletic`/ `the Athletics.`
Unfortunately I don`t have access to the Dunfermline Press or other local `papers, (many?) of which, I understand, are available on microfilm at Dunfermline Library and Edinburgh Library. I would look at letters to the local `papers, and columns by football correspondents, from 11 March 1913 onwards for a month or so. It`s a very long shot but it`s something to aim at if anyone fancies it.
Post Edited (Sun 24 Sep 20:49)
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Topic Originator: DBP
Date: Mon 25 Sep 09:04
I thought after a pretty thorough investigation, we’d arrived at the origin of the nickname?
- applause again to everyone involved last time! 👏
Post Edited (Mon 25 Sep 09:05)
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Topic Originator: onandupthepars
Date: Mon 25 Sep 22:11
I agree DBP - and the Heritage Trust took a significant step in their update, but they still didn`t put it quite as strongly as I wish they had been able to, e.g. `we believe the evidence is overwhelming in favour of `the Pars` being an abbreviation of Paralytics, and that there is no credible alternative.`
That`s how I see it, but there are a few dot netters who don`t. I think East Ender`s statement is a smoking gun, but if there was, for example, a letter to a `paper in which someone says, e.g, `I remember the start of us being called `the Pars`, in (year), it was etc....` - it would be nice to have even more confirmation.
I`d like to have done that bit more searching into local `papers but, annoyingly, the British Newspaper Archive doesn`t have them, and I live too far away.
I think it`s probably accepted privately by all at The Heritage Trust and DAFC, but they maybe have to be over-cautious in their public statement just in case there is some legal claptrap they could unwittingly fall foul of.
Post Edited (Mon 25 Sep 22:23)
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