4.2.10. Calm (question 39)
The only answer other than calm was smooth in Burnmouth (I).
4.2.11. Breakers (question 40)
| Answer |
IPA |
Informants |
|
breakers |
|
III, VI, VIII, XV |
| big sea |
|
XI |
| heavy sea |
|
VII |
| rollers |
|
X, XII |
| surge (of water) |
|
XIV |
| (big /heavy) swell |
|
I, II, IV, V,
IX, XIII, XVI |
Big swell was used by informants IX and XVI; heavy swell by informants I, IV, V.
4.2.12. Landmarks (question 22)
| Answer |
IPA |
Informants |
| bearings |
|
VII, XVI |
| landmarks |
|
III, XII, XIV, XV |
| marks |
|
I, II |
| meads |
|
VIII,
X |
The spontaneous answers
to this question were usually the names of prominent features along the
coast such as local islands, hills, rocks, church steeples, or
lighthouses. A general name for "all of them" could not be obtained from
informants IV, V, VI, IX, XI, XIII.
Mead is listed in SND as the
meaning of "a landmark used by fishermen to steer by."
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