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Article #3361Re: English river names (was: EU's language policy)
From: Randall Kloko
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 00:00
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colin@colina.demon.co.uk (Colin Paul Adams) wrote: >>>>>> "Kurt" == Kurt Swanson <kurt@dna.lth.se> writes: > > >> - where I, as a french speaker, make the difference between a > >> "fleuve " and a "rivi๏ฟฝre", the english-speaking person will > >> only see a "river" > > Kurt> English has many words for moving bodies of water: stream, > Kurt> brook, creek, rivulet, ... > >burn, beck, ghyll ... > >carry on somebody. >-- creek>"crick"; run (e.g. "Bull Run") RK Kloko: Duke University: Durham, NC,USA
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 11578d,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid11578d,public X-Google-Thread: 102cce,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102cce,public X-Google-Thread: fa448,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa448,public X-Google-Thread: 1058af,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid1058af,public X-Google-Thread: 102dad,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102dad,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public From: Randall Kloko <rkloko@acpub.duke.edu> Subject: Re: English river names (was: EU's language policy) Date: 1996/02/12 Message-ID: <4fnr6o$p9c@news.duke.edu> X-Deja-AN: 139039184 references: <4el8tf$a3v@chleuasme.francenet.fr> <823128131snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk> <4f4uno$96r@kielo.uta.fi> <4f8s0u$5s3@chleuasme.francenet.fr> <kurt.823974013@bavur> <COLIN.96Feb11084150@colina.demon.co.uk> content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 organization: Special Collections Library, Duke University mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.uu.lang.misc,eunet.politics,soc.culture.europe,alt.politics.europe.misc,talk.politics.european-union x-mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit)