KERMIS

KERMIS from page 6 When you said “Kirmess” in 1911 you said it all. German was the language in Ashford in the early 1900s, but there are qualifications to the meaning of the aforementioned phrase. “Na buba” is better spelled today in German as “na bube,” meaning “well boy.” The 1911 ‘buba’ could technically be a spelling error, but if read as written, is then both spoken and