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| Taken by Margot K Juby |
If you wander through the snickets of Cottingham you'll come across this little beck. It may look fairly harmless but some idiot built houses right next to it and becks being becks have a tendency to spill over now and then flooding said houses. Well D'oh!
That is one term that didn't make it across the ocean. We just refer to them as streams, brooks, or creeks.
ReplyDeleteIt's fairly localised to northern England, probably came over with the Vikings.
DeleteIt's hard not to say they asked for it, but I'm not going to say it.
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