Oh DEAR. I think I exceeded my nerd quota.
I HYPOTHETICALLY LINGUISTICALLY ANALYZED SOMETHING FROM TIM BURTON'S ALICE IN WONDERLAND *headdesk*.
Fairfarren. This has kind of been picking at my brain. I believe it is Fairfarren, so go with me. So the word makes me automatically think of something from Old English or Old High German and so I looked up what I thought to be the equivalent in these languages which is faran, which means to travel. So I think fairfarren would mean fair travels which I think makes sense in the context in which it was used. Then one could extrapolate -- and this indeed is giving this too much thought indeed, that Outlandish? has a linguistic tie at the very least ( though it could very well be a coincidence) with Old English. But if you went the route of a linguistic tie, either Outlandish was influenced by someone who spoke Old English from the world above, or that a founding group of people in Underland spoke Old English, etc etc etc. It's not uncommon for there to be differences in spelling especially when there were no dictionaries and time could definitely cause the form of the word to mutate from faran to farren. Yeah............
Fairfarren. This has kind of been picking at my brain. I believe it is Fairfarren, so go with me. So the word makes me automatically think of something from Old English or Old High German and so I looked up what I thought to be the equivalent in these languages which is faran, which means to travel. So I think fairfarren would mean fair travels which I think makes sense in the context in which it was used. Then one could extrapolate -- and this indeed is giving this too much thought indeed, that Outlandish? has a linguistic tie at the very least ( though it could very well be a coincidence) with Old English. But if you went the route of a linguistic tie, either Outlandish was influenced by someone who spoke Old English from the world above, or that a founding group of people in Underland spoke Old English, etc etc etc. It's not uncommon for there to be differences in spelling especially when there were no dictionaries and time could definitely cause the form of the word to mutate from faran to farren. Yeah............