[email protected] wrote: > > >Adrian wrote ... > > > > > >> Caen Hill has side pounds. > > >> > > >> Bratch has side pounds. > > >> > > >> Foxton has side *ponds*. Not the same thing at all. > > > > > ><clang> wrong! > > > > I'm afraid not. > I'm afraid so > But I'm not going to waste my time arguing the point! It's somewhat esoteric > semantics anyway and you're no more likely to concede the argument than I am > so why waste the time?
I realise that we are unlikely to see a Road to Damascus style change of opinion from either of you, but I'm intrigued as to where anything like an authoritative view on this distinction in terminology might come from - and indeed that there is actually a 'correct' term at all for something as esoteric at the Foxton and Bratch types, each of which only occurs in a couple of places on the network. Is there a written reference? Do distinctive uses of 'ponds' and 'pounds' appear in (say) the Grand Junction's or the Staffs & Worcs' internal documents, for example? Or is it recorded from oral tradition of the working boat people? Or is it just what you have heard in normal use over however many years you've been involved in canals?
