re: OT: Weird place names

2003-12-11 Thread mike.wilson 
Hi,

Jostein wrote:

 Scottish place-names was good entertainment on our holiday trip with the Cot's
 last summer. There's pretty much Nordic heritage in those pronounciations, I
 think...
 
  Haugh is sucspiciously like the Norwegian haug meaning small hill or
  large mound. Would that fit the topography of Urr's place? :-)

Not only in Scotland.  In northern England, where the border only
solidified in the last 300 years, heugh, haugh and various other
spellings mean hill, rock, hummock, etc.  Many, many words in the
modern, local dialects derive from our visitors from across the North
Sea.

mike
ganning yem

Re: OT: Weird place names

2003-12-11 Thread Peter Jordan 
Sadly Haugh means a low boggy place.

I live in a swamp by the River!!! g

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 Hi,

 Jostein wrote:

  Scottish place-names was good entertainment on our holiday trip with the
Cot's
  last summer. There's pretty much Nordic heritage in those
pronounciations, I
  think...
 
   Haugh is sucspiciously like the Norwegian haug meaning small hill
or
   large mound. Would that fit the topography of Urr's place? :-)

 Not only in Scotland.  In northern England, where the border only
 solidified in the last 300 years, heugh, haugh and various other
 spellings mean hill, rock, hummock, etc.  Many, many words in the
 modern, local dialects derive from our visitors from across the North
 Sea.

 mike
 ganning yem