Ragman Rolls for legal instruments both in England and Scotland will be found in the preface to the Bannatyne Clubs volume, and in Jamiesons Scottish Dictionary, s.v. Ragman. Brewer's "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" defines "Ragman Roll" as follows: The name ragman roll survives in the colloquial rigmarole, a rambling, incoherent statement. Merriam Webster gives a very different account of the origin rigmarole and the term "Ragman Roll". The name of Ragman has been sometimes confined to the record of 1296. There is an account of this given in Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland preserved in the Public Record Office, London.
The Yale Record David Wilton, author of "Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends" (2009), "The Yale Record" is responsible for coining the term "hot dog": There are many stories about the origin of the term hot dog, most of them are false. Let us start with what we know. The first known use of the term is in the "Yale Record" of October 19, 1895...The reason why they are called "hot" is obvious, but why "dog"? It is a reference to the alleged contents of the sausage. The association of sausages and dog meat goes back quite a bit further. The term "dog"