Re: What color is the Rother?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:

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> At 9:13:19 PM on Wednesday, October 10, 2012, dgkilday57 wrote:
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> > Cameron (p. 13) also mentions a Nether and an Upper Red
> > Brook, tributaries of the Ashop, without etymological
> > comment, so presumably these appear red.
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> If the names are old, they're much more likely to reflect OE
> <hrÄ"od> 'reed'.

Both are first attested in 1840 according to Cameron.

DGK