Downs
October 9, 2006
Design by the Brighton and Hove City Council Creative Services Team and Jo offer
Downs
Old English dún, hill. Old Dutch dúna (Middle Dutch dúne, Dutch Duin, whence Modern Low German düne, French dune, sandhill).
An open expanse of elevated land, especially in the plural, the treless undulating chalk uplands of the South and South-East of England, serving chiefly for pasturage.
Now I finally know how it's possible to go "up" to the "Downs". Well done Jenny!
Posted by céline, in Words, on October 9, 2006Richard Adams'novel Watership Down was given the German title 'Unten am Fluss' (Down by the river)!
Posted by Margaret on October 9, 2006 9:10 PMI like the local authority bus poster. What's interesting is the way in which the landscape is reflected in the choice of words used to advertise the various bus routes. We have something similar here in Cambridgeshire with bus routes between Cambridge and Peterborough being advertised as "Across the Fens" (the Fens being flat and something that is "crossed" like water) or the routes between Cambridge and Newmarket advertised under the slogan of "Racing Ahead", referring, of course, to the home of British horse racing.
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