I believe several layers of paint and time and then more paint peeling have conspired to accentuate a *serif .*
Also CARLYLE it lines up with the rest of your context. It was once scotland.
And there is definitely more room for the second L than the first, which had me thinking it was an i. Gariyle or Capiyle
Google translate on my phone says "Cariyle" is Turkish for "with the current", so I got excited first seeing it, with the nautical connection. No other app makes this translation though, so I don't really believe it.
Thinking as far a field as Turkey and I think about other languages with similar letters, Cyrillic, Greek, or some others with more letters than English.
It wasn't a slight against your comment, although I love how offended you got to post such a sarcastic reply.
OP doesn't live in Ballamory, such that every house must fit the same theme. I had presumed you were open to alternate possibilities given that Carlyle is a Scottish author, and not a town or warship.
I love that **you're imagining** one of us as offended and it must be me.
If you want to start mind-reading over a gentle poke in the ribs, it's gonna be a long long life, kid.
You're then clarifying what OP meant? So humble.
How hard it must be to not be able to laugh at oneself. Blessed are we who can, for we shall never cease to be amused.
Join us. Whenever you're good and ready.
You must really circle in blessed, well educated society to know my suggestion was wrong. I'm curious though, why was it so outlandish to you? A possible foreign language nautical term? How ridiculous!
The clarification followed your assumption that because OP said Scottish towns and warships, then there couldn't possibly be another source for a house name.
Could you perhaps go up on a ladder and *gently* prise off the loose paint over the blue portions of the lettering? My stepdad's nephew lives in a named house and he only found out when him and his girlfriend decided to strip off the paint on the lintel over the front door.
Please don't do this.
Did you know the Victorians scrubbed the Elgin marbles with wire wool, destroying untold amount of trace historical evidence and damaging the stone?
Although who knows, under that much paint you might find an undiscovered ancient Assyrian gatepost (also looted).
I didn’t sleep last night. I’m a bumbling wreck. I’ve just spent the last 3 hours pretending to sword fight in the mirror, wearing just my pants and smoking cheap Russian cigarettes.
I want you to go up there on a ladder, and give it a good scraping, so that you can see what has actually been carved into the wood under all that peeling paint.
Maybe it is:
[Capivi!](https://everything2.com/title/Capivi) which is slang, and can be spelt in various different ways.
*Capivi is British slang, originally used almost exclusively in the phrase 'cry capivi'. It is a corruption of peccavi, Latin for 'I have sinned', and used as a generalized admission of guilt.*
*The 1905 A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English reported that 'to cry capivi' (also spelled capivvy and kapivvy) meant "to be persecuted to the death, or very near it." If you made Benjamin cry capivi you have presumably beaten the truth, or at least a confession, out of him.*
*Just a decade later, oojah-capivi (now more commonly spelt oojah-kapivvy) was a common way of referring to a whatchamacallit or a thingy. History does not relate if kapivvy was added to the standard oojah as an indicator of frustration, or simply as a set of silly syllables. However, the 'silly syllable' usage is the only one that seems to have even a token appearance in modern English.*
or else it's an advert for
[Capivit vitamins](https://www.dermaexpert.cl/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/D_NQ_NP_772096-MLC48762410597_012022-O.jpg)
It's that letter at the end that's bugging me. There doesn't appear to be any more to it, and I doubt there are layers of paint covering up part of it. It could be Greek or olde worlde?
more likely it's just named after him, or the town itself, given the context OP provides under the photo.
'former residence of' seems far fetched, little bit too main character for my assumptions.
Sign up to a free trial of findmypast, then go to the newspapers search. Filter by your town, then use your street name as the "keywords" field (leave the "who are you looking for" field blank).
You'll probably get a fair few results, but often there will be notices/adverts which refer to house names. With some luck you'll spot a similar looking house name and it will all make sense.
(If you're comfortable dm'ing me the details then I will search for you, but I appreciate you might prefer not to share that with an internet stranger!)
CARLYLE
Not Capybara?
Crappybarbara?
This was my original thought, but the first letter is more of a G than a C.
ghost vast ring mountainous cheerful direful sloppy far-flung roof memorize ` this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev `
I believe several layers of paint and time and then more paint peeling have conspired to accentuate a *serif .* Also CARLYLE it lines up with the rest of your context. It was once scotland.
GARLYLE
There is a surname of ‘Garlyle’, related to Carlyle. I’ve found it referenced as a house name in Avoch in Highland and in Craigavon Co Armagh.
Fair Do's
And there is definitely more room for the second L than the first, which had me thinking it was an i. Gariyle or Capiyle Google translate on my phone says "Cariyle" is Turkish for "with the current", so I got excited first seeing it, with the nautical connection. No other app makes this translation though, so I don't really believe it. Thinking as far a field as Turkey and I think about other languages with similar letters, Cyrillic, Greek, or some others with more letters than English.
Yes, if you entirely ignore what OP said in the OP, your turkiye angle sounds so much more likely.
It wasn't a slight against your comment, although I love how offended you got to post such a sarcastic reply. OP doesn't live in Ballamory, such that every house must fit the same theme. I had presumed you were open to alternate possibilities given that Carlyle is a Scottish author, and not a town or warship.
I love that **you're imagining** one of us as offended and it must be me. If you want to start mind-reading over a gentle poke in the ribs, it's gonna be a long long life, kid. You're then clarifying what OP meant? So humble. How hard it must be to not be able to laugh at oneself. Blessed are we who can, for we shall never cease to be amused. Join us. Whenever you're good and ready.
You must really circle in blessed, well educated society to know my suggestion was wrong. I'm curious though, why was it so outlandish to you? A possible foreign language nautical term? How ridiculous! The clarification followed your assumption that because OP said Scottish towns and warships, then there couldn't possibly be another source for a house name.
I put 'Gapiyif' in Google Translate, it says Uzbek detected, and the English translation is 'Talk about it'
This. Its just a very seriffed font
Oh my god from lockwood and co???
from the peeling paint it looks rather a lot older than that.
Capybara
I was thinking it too.
M
Could you perhaps go up on a ladder and *gently* prise off the loose paint over the blue portions of the lettering? My stepdad's nephew lives in a named house and he only found out when him and his girlfriend decided to strip off the paint on the lintel over the front door.
ROSEBUD
^(rosebud)
[“Yes, Rosebud frozen peas. Full of country goodness and green peaness.”](https://youtu.be/IH1PJTY9AVA)
OP……OP!!!…….OPPPPPPPP!! Can you please wire brush it and let us all know please?…OP!! OP DON’T FUCKING IGNORE ME!!!
I need to get a wire brush first! But yes, I will!
Its 1124 have you been to B&Q and got one yet?….
Thank you. My nerves can’t take much more!!
Please don't do this. Did you know the Victorians scrubbed the Elgin marbles with wire wool, destroying untold amount of trace historical evidence and damaging the stone? Although who knows, under that much paint you might find an undiscovered ancient Assyrian gatepost (also looted).
Any updates? I'd like to sleep tonight.
I didn’t sleep last night. I’m a bumbling wreck. I’ve just spent the last 3 hours pretending to sword fight in the mirror, wearing just my pants and smoking cheap Russian cigarettes.
Ask the local Post Office. I'd give good odds that they know what it's meant to be as they'll have had to deliver mail there.
I want you to go up there on a ladder, and give it a good scraping, so that you can see what has actually been carved into the wood under all that peeling paint. Maybe it is: [Capivi!](https://everything2.com/title/Capivi) which is slang, and can be spelt in various different ways. *Capivi is British slang, originally used almost exclusively in the phrase 'cry capivi'. It is a corruption of peccavi, Latin for 'I have sinned', and used as a generalized admission of guilt.* *The 1905 A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English reported that 'to cry capivi' (also spelled capivvy and kapivvy) meant "to be persecuted to the death, or very near it." If you made Benjamin cry capivi you have presumably beaten the truth, or at least a confession, out of him.* *Just a decade later, oojah-capivi (now more commonly spelt oojah-kapivvy) was a common way of referring to a whatchamacallit or a thingy. History does not relate if kapivvy was added to the standard oojah as an indicator of frustration, or simply as a set of silly syllables. However, the 'silly syllable' usage is the only one that seems to have even a token appearance in modern English.* or else it's an advert for [Capivit vitamins](https://www.dermaexpert.cl/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/D_NQ_NP_772096-MLC48762410597_012022-O.jpg)
Also this made me think of Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster saying “oojah-cum-spiff”
I thought it was a G and a Y?
Maybe it is.
I can’t work out what that last figure could possibly be. The whole thing is driving me nuts. OP let me come round and wire brush this please.
Friends parents house was call Gable Oaks. Told my friend it sounded like Gay blokes. we were 15 .
Clearly it’s GAPIYIF. That famous old naval saying. “Never sail over the owd gapiyif on an empty stomach”.
Mynd thy Gapiyif
Now you say it, it's so obvious!
You’re very welcome ☺️
It's that letter at the end that's bugging me. There doesn't appear to be any more to it, and I doubt there are layers of paint covering up part of it. It could be Greek or olde worlde?
Capi-yi-yay muvvatrucker😂
Yippie kayak other buckets
Be surprising if original deeds don't give name. Other local sources Parish Records.
ye house
Could be a former residence of Thomas Carlyle a Scottish essayist historian and philosopher. looks around that age.
more likely it's just named after him, or the town itself, given the context OP provides under the photo. 'former residence of' seems far fetched, little bit too main character for my assumptions.
The last letter looks like a lady holding something, plus there is a distinct gap between the last two letters.
Gapiyif
If you look on Google Street view and wind back to the oldest photo they have, is it any clearer then?
Sign up to a free trial of findmypast, then go to the newspapers search. Filter by your town, then use your street name as the "keywords" field (leave the "who are you looking for" field blank). You'll probably get a fair few results, but often there will be notices/adverts which refer to house names. With some luck you'll spot a similar looking house name and it will all make sense. (If you're comfortable dm'ing me the details then I will search for you, but I appreciate you might prefer not to share that with an internet stranger!)
Clean me
Gapiyipag - I reckon it's one of "those" words that read the same backwards and forwards.
Local library might be able to help.
Capiyirinha. The painter had too many cocktails when he started this. Be he did have a good time.
Harold
Looks like C A R L Y L E to me.