Followee vs. Tidy vs. Conclusion vs. Alternative vs. Money vs. Beast vs. Days vs. Aztec vs. Quarg vs. Conductor vs. Insecureness vs. Trending Comparisons. Big vs. Mandate vs.
Logistician vs. Autocracy vs. Socialism vs. Man vs. Ivermectin vs. Supersonic vs. Sufficient vs. Gazelle vs. Caracal vs. Mouse vs. Featured Comparisons Guidence vs. Valley noun The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream.
Vale noun a written or spoken farewell. Valley noun a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river. Vale interjection farewell. Valley noun an internal angle formed by the intersecting planes of a roof, or by the slope of a roof and a wall. Valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Valley Illustrations.
Popular Comparisons. Adress vs. Comming vs. Label vs. Speech vs. Genius vs. Chief vs. Teat vs. Neice vs. Buisness vs. Beeing vs. Amature vs. Lieing vs. Preferred vs. Omage vs. Finally vs. Attendance vs. Latest Comparisons Allosaurus vs. Shaun vs. So it's only half a valley, really. North of the Thames is foreign country, trying to be Cotswolds.
Mind you, I haven't bothered to look at a map. Paul In bocca al Lupo! Students: We have free audio pronunciation exercises. Yes, difference in placename elements may just be due to the different dialects of English rather than to any real difference of meaning - there is a particularly sharp difference in usage between those places which had Danish influence and those places that did not.
The word "valley", of which "vale" is a variant, comes from the Latin. I think for that reason it won't be found in old place names. Perhaps it managed to get into English because it replaced a variery of local usages. I assume "dell" comes from the same root as "dale". Matthew Huntbach. OED discusses this well. In support, there is a very similar French word for which a Celtic origin has also been claimed.
Didn't we talk about this a week or two ago? When we did, I put forward the idea that words may have defaulted to the Anglo-Saxon version when they seemed similar.
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