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There is a script called Grantham (which shows up as Grantha in Wikipedia). This page should be a disambiguation page. Swami 19:33, 18 February 2006 (UTC)Saiswa

[edit] Pronunciation

Can we add a pronunciation to this page, for poor people like me who don't know whether to say 'granθam' or 'grant-ham'? Njál 00:35, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Newton and the apple

I've removed this text:

 Newton actually observed the apple falling off the tree at Boothby Pagnell, not Woolsthorpe.

as it has little to do with Grantham itself and, moreover, the claim is made with no backing and it's not even given a mention on the Isaac Newton page. davep 21:00, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Domesday Book?

Currently, I see competing claims on the same page. There is '...appeared as early as 1086 in the Domesday Book in its present form of Grantham' in Etymology (with a footnote making an effort to back this up), and yet the claims to a link to the Scottish 'Grahams' under Notable People (which sounds speculative and would really need a citation, IMHO, even if it's just a historic speculative assumption) states that 'Grantham is mentioned as "Graeg Ham"'. 62.49.25.104 09:33, 31 October 2007 (UTC)