Thread: Lakes or ponds?
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Old 23-01-2004, 12:19 AM
Jaques d'Alltrades
 
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Default Lakes or ponds?

The message
from "Bevan Price" contains
these words:

No dimensions included for any of these definitions.


They omitted 'pit' - East-Anglian term for a pond: originating (I'd
guess) from the pit clay was mined from to mix with cowdung and chopped
straw to make clay-lump building blocks.

Any pond and some lakes in large swathes of east Anglia are called pits.

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