Editing Hove (section)

==Name and etymology==
Old spellings of Hove include Hou ([[Domesday Book]], 1086), la Houue (1288), Huua (13th century), Houve (13th and 14th centuries), Huve (14th and 15th centuries), Hova (16th century) and Hoova (1675).<ref name="VCH-Hove">{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol7/pp265-268|title=A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7, the Rape of Lewes. The Borough of Hove|editor-last=Salzman|editor-first=L.F.|editor-link=Louis Francis Salzman|year=1940|work=[[Victoria County History]] of Sussex|publisher=[[British History Online]]|pages=265–268|access-date=9 September 2016|archive-date=10 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310104502/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol7/pp265-268|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="EncH&Pv7p89">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 7, p. 89.}}</ref>  The etymology was disputed at length during the 20th century as academics offered several competing theories. Suggestions included an [[Old Norse]] word meaning "hall", "sanctuary" or "[[Tumulus|barrow]]", in reference to the [[Bronze Age]] barrow near the present [[Palmeira Square]]; an [[Old English]] phrase ''æt þæm hofe'' meaning "at the hall";{{#tag:ref|This suggestion was given in ''[https://archive.org/stream/placenamesofsuss00robeiala/placenamesofsuss00robeiala_djvu.txt The Place-Names of Sussex]'' (1914) by R.G. Roberts.|group=note}} the Old English ''hufe'' meaning "shelter" or "covering"; and the [[Middle English]] ''hofe'' meaning "anchorage". No other places in Britain are called Hove, and single-syllable names as a whole are rare in Sussex.<ref name="EncH&Pv7p89"/>  The modern name was originally pronounced "Hoove" ({{IPAc-en|'|h|uː|v}}). The present pronunciation ({{IPAc-en|'|h|oʊ|v}}) "is comparatively recent".<ref name="EncH&Pv7p69">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 7, p. 69.}}</ref>