Timeline for What does "fells" mean here?
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| Mar 14, 2022 at 11:47 | comment | added | Steve Bennett | I don't think it's either/or. A common word from one language might be obscure when used within another language, same with dialect. | |
| Mar 12, 2022 at 16:37 | comment | added | richardb | Dialect might be a better way to put it than 'fairly obscure'. | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 22:43 | comment | added | Barmar | @SteveBennett Good point. We'd say "Let's go for a walk in the Winchester Fells". | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 22:41 | comment | added | Steve Bennett | @Barmar a word existing in the etymology of a placename doesn't make that word in current usage. Do people in Boston ever say "let's go for a walk in the fells"? | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 16:42 | comment | added | J... | @ChrisH They can swing all they like, it doesn't change the fact that 99.6% of English speakers do not live in Yorkshire. It doesn't change the fact that, like Glasgwegian, Brummie, Scouse, and Geordie, many people even from within the UK find at least some of the vocabulary impenetrable. | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 16:30 | comment | added | Chris H | @J... I'd say it's not obscure in British English (but then I've always like walking in the mountains despite being a southerner). But calling Yorkshire "obscure"! I hope you're good at ducking. | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 15:19 | comment | added | Barmar | Not just Britain. There are several named fells in the Boston area, and a major road is called The Fellsway. | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 12:39 | comment | added | J... | @ColinFine You misunderstand - the point is that Yorkshire itself is obscure, accounting for only 0.4% of the world's English speakers. This, by extension, makes its use of the word also obscure. | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 11:36 | comment | added | Colin Fine | It's not obscure in Yorkshire | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 10:31 | comment | added | Bob Goddard | There are of course, the Campsie Fells to the north of Glasgow, a bunch of hills which I have enjoyed many a walk. | |
| Mar 7, 2022 at 9:41 | comment | added | Steve Melnikoff | Not at the base, but in caves underground. (The poem is from The Hobbit; Tolkein's dwarves live underground.) | |
| Mar 6, 2022 at 23:16 | history | answered | Steve Bennett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |