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Posted by Christopher Waldrop
March 22, 2008 |
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This week’s word of the week is: loch. Coming to us from Scots Gaelic, a loch is a lake, although it can also mean an arm of the sea; usually the latter definition is applied when the body of water is narrow or partially landlocked. There’s also an extremely obscure Derbyshire variant that means means a vein of mineral found in a mine, but for most people the word loch is familiar because of a particularly famous loch (meaning lake) called Loch Ness. And it’s famous because there’s rumored to be a wee monster swimming around in it. She–she is, after all, affectionately called “Nessie”–has been occasionally glimpsed, and even–according to some–photographed, but never really caught. She remains a little bit of a mystery, more famous than Champy of Lake Champlain, even better known than Ogopogo. But she’s just a legend…right?
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