What does "sound element" mean?
Keith
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From: The English Place-Name List [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Ikins [[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: An exercise in identifying a British river name
The river Caldew is agreeably 'cold river' ERN p62, Cameron p91. ODEPN and Mills are silent.
If you start at the mouth
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and record the place-names along its banks what sound element turns up most frequently?
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Tom Ikins
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