Editing Scrumpy (section)

==Etymology==
Various origins of the name ''scrumpy'' have been proposed. The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', which finds the term first used in 1904, derives it from the noun ''scrump'', meaning "something withered or dried up", not specifically apples. Other claimed derivations include a noun ''scrimp'' with the same meaning, derived from a verb ''scrump'', meaning "to steal fruit".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A689060 |title=Scrumpy |publisher=h2g2 |accessdate=4 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-definition/scrump |title=Scrump |publisher=Reverso |accessdate=4 December 2013}}</ref> Neither of these meanings is attested in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', and the ''[[English Dialect Dictionary]]'' confirms the existence of the word ''scrump'' applied to "anything small or undersized", particularly apples, and notes a related word ''scrumpling'' for a small apple.<ref name=edd>Wright (ed)''English Dialect Dictionary'', 1961, p.291</ref><ref>History & Antiquities of Horsham, Doreathea E Hurst, Francombe & Co, Lewes (1868), (1889) 2nd ed page 266 describes a scrumpling as a small, ill shaped apple</ref> It can be applied to basic [[homebrewing|homemade]] ciders as well as to commercially produced and marketed varieties.

In 1997 a legal case on trademark law was fought in [[Ireland]] between [[Scrumpy Jack|Symonds]] and [[Magners|Showerings (Ireland)]], in which the defendant successfully argued that "scrumpy" was a part of the "commonage" of the language, being a generic term referring to rough dry farmhouse cider.<ref name=byrne774>Byrne (ed). ''Annual Review of Irish Law 1997'', p.774</ref>