Presqu'isle or presqu'ile usually translates as "peninsula" At 12:18 PM 01/08/2004 -0500, Joyce Family wrote: >The closest thing I have been able to find for the thing connected (at low >tide) by the "tombolo" is "presqu'nle" (circumflex over the i) [Fr: "near >island"]. > > > Tombolo, of Italian/Latin origin, in the strictest sense "the sand spit > > connecting a near-mainland island to the mainland." At least that's what >my > > Random House dictonary says; I have always used tombolo to refer to the > > totality of the situation: both the island and the interconnecting spit. ----- Noel Roy Professor and Head Department of Economics Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1C 5S7 tel: (709) 737-8245 fax: (709) 737-3065 WWW: http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~noelroy *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Aug 04 2004 - 09:09:53 PDT
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