LL-L 'Lexicon' 2006.11.06 (02) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 06 November 2006 * Volume 02
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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: LL-L 'Lexicon' 2006.10.31 (05) [E/German]

>From: R. F. Hahn [sassisch at yahoo.com]
>Subject: lexicon
>
>Hi, Karl-Heinz!
>
>In my vocabulary, a _Fleet_ (German [fle:t] < Low Saxon [flE.It]) is an
>artificial city canal, and, yes, I consider it pretty much the same as a Dutch
>_gracht_. In some western dialects, the cognate is _Graft_. (It's the old f ~ x
>thing, as in "laugh" vs _lach_.) The latter is related to _graven_, _graben_
>etc., i.e., 'to dig', 'to excavate', and also English "grave." Originally there
>may be a technical difference between _Fleet_ and _gracht_. I'm not sure if a
>_Fleet_ was *always* *completely* man-made.
>
On the south English coast there's some very strange topography by way
of Portland, which is piece of land connected to the mainland by a sandy
beach 17 miles long with water on both sides. The inner stretch of water
seems completely enclosed and is referred to as "The Fleet".

>So their definition of _Kanal_ differs from mine. I disagree, considering that
>the almost any narrow water passage can be a _Kanal_, such as the British Channel
>(_Ärmelkanal_ "sleeve canal/channel").
>
Does anybody call it the "British Channel"? It's the English Channel,
surely?

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/

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