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Old 02-23-2011, 08:50 AM
Freycinet Freycinet is offline
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Originally Posted by Ploughman View Post
In Yorkshire a very small stream would be called a beck, which seems so similar to your German bach they must be related.
Pretty sure you got that from us Danes during the Danelaw. Here we call it "bæk", and it is pronounced exactly as "beck".
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