
It derives from the border town of Jedburgh where they used to do this rather a lot. I feel that Jedward and Jedwood justice, though etymologically unrelated, could usefully be brought together.
Incidentally, Jedburgh is terribly important in the history of geology and therefore in the history of history. It was by studying the rock formations nearby that James Hutton worked out his idea of geological time. Geological time stretched the earth beyond the petty grasp of human history or human understanding. In geological time, as Hutton put it:
We find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
Which is a lovely example of antithesis.
Hutton contemplating Jedwood for Jedward
When they were on X Factor, people starting calling them 'Deadwood'. If you watched them or listened to them, it wasn't difficult to see why.
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