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Thread #10188 Message #2797916
Posted By: Tootler
28-Dec-09 - 03:34 PM
Thread Name: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun!
Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun!
Growing up just north of Boston, I called small streams of running water brooks.
Where I live in North Yorkshire, they are "becks". The same word is used in Cumbria. The word is Scandinavian in origin. I did a translation check in Google and brook is:
"bekk" in Norwegian
"bäck" in Swedish and
"bæk" in Danish
Same word.