Toma413 1 Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 May sound a bit of a stupid question but im wondering if anyone knows why foxes are called charlies?where has this come from?? Quote Link to post
Geoff.C 0 Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 May sound a bit of a stupid question but im wondering if anyone knows why foxes are called charlies?where has this come from?? It may be a regional thing which has spread about? Foxes are called "Freddie" round here by some people. In the phonetic alphabet, as used by police, fire, aviation etc, C-F is Charlie Foxtrot, it may just be something to do with that? Quote Link to post
brno17 5 Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 the name charlie comes from charles reynard who was nicknamed the fox. i think Quote Link to post
Toma413 1 Posted July 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 May sound a bit of a stupid question but im wondering if anyone knows why foxes are called charlies?where has this come from?? It may be a regional thing which has spread about? Foxes are called "Freddie" round here by some people. In the phonetic alphabet, as used by police, fire, aviation etc, C-F is Charlie Foxtrot, it may just be something to do with that? Could well be geoff,cheers for the reply! Quote Link to post
297chrisc 0 Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806) was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and who was particularly noted for being the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. The son of an old, indulgent Whig father, Fox rose to prominence in the House of Commons as a forceful and eloquent speaker with a notorious and colourful private life, though his opinions were rather conservative and conventional. Quote Link to post
Rolfe 2 Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 May sound a bit of a stupid question but im wondering if anyone knows why foxes are called charlies?where has this come from?? I always understood that the name derived from Charles James Fox......1749-1806 the notorious MP who was a noted gambler and huntsman of that period. Rolfe. Quote Link to post
Geoff.C 0 Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 May sound a bit of a stupid question but im wondering if anyone knows why foxes are called charlies?where has this come from?? I always understood that the name derived from Charles James Fox......1749-1806 the notorious MP who was a noted gambler and huntsman of that period. Rolfe. Thanks for that info Rolfe and 297chrisc, it's amazing what you can find out on here! Quote Link to post
outshooting 0 Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 the name charlie comes from charles reynard who was nicknamed the fox. i think Could well be , down here in Cornwall/Devon the fox is also called Raynard Quote Link to post
AJWH 0 Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 people call foxes raynard up here aswell so that sounds plausable.. Alex Quote Link to post
on-point 0 Posted July 19, 2008 Report Share Posted July 19, 2008 raynard = french for fox charles james fox was indeed a polititian as you say and everything else is right apart from him being a huntsman. quite the opposit, he introduced the equivelant of a private members bill to the common that would effectively restrict the hunting of foxes and accest to land by the hunts. everyone in the hunting world therfore thought that he was a t**t and so took great plaesure in nicknaming their quarry after him "charles, charlie etc" and ripping him up in covert in the winter months. who-woop on-point Quote Link to post
slickdicko 0 Posted July 19, 2008 Report Share Posted July 19, 2008 i spoke to a fox once and it told me its name was William ! Quote Link to post
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