[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now here is a question to ask Adrian (orany other waterway experts). > What is the criteria for naming a length of canal as an arm, as against=20 > a branch ?
[Frstly, to save Adrian the trouble I will point out that 'criterion' is the singular, 'criteria' the plural] I don't think there's any actual rule. And there doesn't even seem to be consistent use of one term or the other for particular cases. I've almost always heard the various offshoots of the GU built by the Grand Junction Company referred to as 'arm' but in his history of the Grand Junction, Alan Faulkner refers to them all as 'branches'. One possible distinction might have been that a branch is something specifically authorised (eg by Act), whereas an arm was built either privately or by the company under general powers eg to make collateral cuts of up to a certain length as and when they wanted. I've a vague idea that on some waterways some such terminology may have been used. Martin L
