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Dave Wilton

21 Mar 2025 • 6 min read
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Country road leading into Moynalty with a sign saying it won the 2006 Tidy Towns competition; a church is in the background

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3 April 2026 Tidy is one of those words whose origin seems unfathomable, but when you learn it suddenly becomes patently obvious.  Our modern word tidy comes from the Old English tid, meaning “time, hour season,” and that word is also the origin of our modern word tide and tidings.
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