Uncle Tom Cobley and all

Sabinus Baring-Gould.

"Uncle Tom Cobley and all" est locutio Anglica quae enumerationem longam et fastidiosam concludit. E verbis cantilenae Widecombe Fair extrahitur, quae mercatum ad Widecumbam Devoniae annuatim celebratum commemorat. Cantilena e traditione populari descripta anno 1890 a Sabino Baring-Gould edita est. Enumeratio contubernalium in hac cantilena sic sonat:

... For I wants for to go to Widecombe Fair

With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy,

Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all --

Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all.

In bibliographiis recentibus interdum inter eruditos enumeratos hoc nomen iocose inseritur. Apud Institutum Informationis Scientificae reperitur:

• Batich C, Heilbron.E, Hornung V, Ashe AJ, Clark DT, Cobley UT, Kilcast D, Scanlan I, "Applications Of Photoelectron Spectroscopy .41. Photoelectron Spectra Of Phosphabenzene, Arsabenzene, And Stibabenzene", Journal of the American Chemical Society 95 (3): 928-930, doi:10.1021/ja00784a054, 1973

Bibliographia

• Sabine Baring-Gould, Henricus Fleetwood Sheppard, edd., Songs and Ballads of the West. 1888-1891.