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Coates, Richard, “Stour and Blyth as English river-names”, English Language and Linguistics 10:1 (2006): 23–29.

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Coates (Richard)

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“Stour and Blyth as English river-names”

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English Language and Linguistics 10:1 (2006)

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10

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23–29

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The disputed etymology of the river-name Stour is revisited. It is suggested that an ‘Old European’ river-name was taken for an OE adjective, and that this adjective with its antonym represented in the river-name Blyth expressed the principal opposition in the classificatory system imposed on rivers in the Anglo-Saxon period.

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English Stour • English Blyth

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