Please login or click here to join.
Forgot Password? Click Here to reset pasword
Linda-mary Sigley Posts: 195 Joined: 27th Jul 2010 Location: USA | quotePosted at 00:59 on 13th August 2010 Would someone help me with the following terms? beck, combe, dale, a water (reservoir?). I may have a few more later on. Thanks to any one of you who may help me. |
Barbara Shoemaker Posts: 1764 Joined: 4th Jan 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 15:14 on 18th August 2010 Hi Linda! I don't believe we've met. I'm also from the USA - Virginia. Welcome to POE! In answer to your questions (according to my dictionary): A beck is a small stream. Combe - a short valley or hollow on a hillside or coastline, especially in southern England. Dale - a an open river valley in a hilly area. Please correct me, English POE-ers, if I'm wrong. |
Barbara Shoemaker Posts: 1764 Joined: 4th Jan 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 15:15 on 18th August 2010 I have a question now. How does one pronounce the word "Guiting" as in the village of Guiting Power, and what does it mean? |
James Prescott Posts: 25952 Joined: 11th Jan 2010 Location: UK | quotePosted at 15:42 on 18th August 2010 i would pronounce it gitting hence silent "u " |
Barbara Shoemaker Posts: 1764 Joined: 4th Jan 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 15:47 on 18th August 2010 Ah, I see. Thanks James! |
Linda-mary Sigley Posts: 195 Joined: 27th Jul 2010 Location: USA | quotePosted at 10:28 on 19th August 2010 Thanks Barbara. When I was over in Britain I spent the majority of my time in the north of England, most especially in York and environs. But I never saw the Yorkshire dales. The moors, yes. I was mainly in what was the East Riding of Yorkshire. But climbing up a hill in Scarborough I did see Charlotte Bronte's gravesite in a modest little churchyard. Wow. Impressed me. Also had the best fish & chips ever in Scarborough. James, about your hat in your other pic. By jaunty I meant it made you look debonair and devil-may-care. I'm not sure jaunty means the same thing in UK. Does it? Barbara, Virginia has to be one of the most beautiful states in the union. I am a native Californian. |
James Prescott Posts: 25952 Joined: 11th Jan 2010 Location: UK | quotePosted at 10:35 on 19th August 2010 for you linda i will put it back on. |
Barbara Shoemaker Posts: 1764 Joined: 4th Jan 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 14:58 on 19th August 2010 Thanks, Linda. I agree about Virginia's beauty, although living in northern Virginia (basically a huge suburb of Washington, DC) one has to drive out into the countryside a bit to get a real picture of the beauty by getting away from the traffic and congestion. I've visited California a couple of times (San Diego, San Francisco) and very much enjoyed it. It too has a beauty all its own, and it's wonderful to be near the ocean. |
Linda-mary Sigley Posts: 195 Joined: 27th Jul 2010 Location: USA | quotePosted at 11:01 on 21st August 2010 Well, thank you very much indeed, James. Love that pic. I really must upload my pic (such as it is). Got to figure out how to do it on POE. Thanks, Barbara. Yes, San Francisco & San Diego are perfectly lovely. Gets cold in the summer in San Francisco. San Diego is reputed to have the best weather in the world. Where I grew up we had perfect weather also. That was Costa Mesa, 35 miles south of LA & 15 miles south of Disneyland. Too many people there now--very overcrowded in South Orange County & very expensive, also. Have you ever been to far western Virginia? You have to see Fancy Gap & Narrows, VA. |
Sue Tym Posts: 4 Joined: 18th Jun 2007 Location: UK | quotePosted at 05:56 on 17th October 2012 the pronounciation of Guiting Power is child's play compared to the little village where I grew up LYMPNE Try that for size! Nothing in the British Isles is pronounced as it is spelt, and it confuses the hell out of my American daughter-in-law |