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brownduck006 | 19:01 Sun 16th Feb 2003 | Phrases & Sayings
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why is a body of water called a sound?
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In both Old English and Old Norse, 'sund' meant swimming, sea or strait; hence, it is now used to mean the last of these...a narrow sea channel, as in the Sound of Sleat near the island of Skye, for example.
20:13 Sun 16th Feb 2003
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A perfect answer and you only get 1 star! My heart bleeds for you QM!
23:37 Sun 16th Feb 2003
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Cheers, J2B. It'll be interesting to see whether someone comes along with a wrong answer and gets a 3-star rating! I'll manage to live with the rater's opinion somehow, though, given that my explanation of the word's source and meaning is fully supported by The Oxford English Dictionary - the 'bible' of word meaning and etymology.)
07:47 Mon 17th Feb 2003

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