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SOME PYRENEAN WORDS 161may be told by a shepherd that he is bien connu id, which onlymeans that he is well informed and not that he is famous.There is a sort of parallel in the English word ' learned,' whichmay be applied either to the person or to the thing.The Spaniards have a peculiar sound intermediate betweenB and V, which has to do duty for both and J (especially whenfollowing N) is not liked on either side of the range. On the Sit is hardened to K and on the N slightly aspirated, so that itsounds like SH. There was an active young fellow at Gavarniewhom his comrades always called " Bon Chemin," whichstrangers imagined to be a nickname earned by his excellentwalking powers, until some Spaniard addressed him as " BenKamin," and disclosed the fact that he had been christenedBenjamin.There are several spots on the French side called Les Gloriettes,which must have some connection with Spanish glorieta (arbour).One place of this name is near Gedre, at the foot of an ancientice-fall, which has left the rock in great steps with nooks hereand there, which may have been thought to resemble arbours.This is more likely than the explanation once suggested to meby a native: "Mais ne trouvez vous pas, Monsieur, que e'est unendroit tant soit peu glorieux ? "As showing how oddly phrases spring up and pass away, itmay be worth while to record that in and around that valley aprecipice is called a chapelle. A young hunter, who was out withme, turned away from such a place, which we had prudentlydecided not to cross, with the words, " C'est une veritablechapelle." Asked what he meant he said that it looked like thewall of a chapel. He did not know the meaning of his ownphrase, for during many years it was the custom, when declaringa rock face impossible, to add : " except for Chapelle," HenriPaget of Heas, dit Chapelle, having been for some decades themost agile hunter in the whole range.Jardin is familiar everywhere in the sense of garden ; but inthe mountains it more often bears the meaning of a clearing inor at the edge of a wood, being the equivalent of artiga orartigou. Here, the alternative gender of the endings shows theword to be adjectival or participial in its origin and we see fromthe form that it is Spanish. In that language participles endingin -ado or -ada often drop to -aou or -o and -ada. A bill is often
162 THE FELL AND ROCK CLIMBING CLUB JOURNALreceipted with the word pago, standing for pagado (paid) and,in the same way, eradicado, may have passed into artigado andartigou. In English the middle vowel of ' eradicate ' has beenshortened; but the Latin languages all retain the stress on it.Canaou, a name applied to several passes, has a similar history.It is often said to be a form of' canal'; but more probably itis a contraction of canado, as it has a feminine form canada, andthe sense appears to be ' pipelike.'Marcadaou, a pass near Cauterets, may owe its title, like theStake in Cumberland, to its having been staked out for theguidance of travellers.An amusing instance of this termination is disguised in theTaillon, near the Breche de Roland. The French surveyorsenquired the name, were told that it was Tallou, and latermisread the final letter as an N. It is simply Tallado (cloven),and refers to that amazing cleft said to have been carved by thePaladin's good sword, Durandal.A similar blunder on the part of the Etat Majeur bestowedthe name of Posets on the Spanish mountain, Lardana orArdrana, near Luchon. The story goes that two local men wereengaged by them as porters or chainmen, one of whom wascalled Pausset (a surname which also appears as Paget andPasset), and the other man, when asked to give the name of themountain, understood that the name of his comrade was requiredand gave it, little thinking that he was thereby rechristeningthe peak.Especieres is the name of a valley near Gavamie which hascaused some speculation. It simply means " The Pepperpots."Even now you may hear pepper called spice, being the onlycondiment of the sort which, till recently, reached the uppervalleys. The place seems to have got its name from certain roundhollows there, which were considered to resemble the holes ina pepperpot.Jasse has been of late years adopted by some geologists withoutperfect appreciation of its meaning. The true jasse is the filled-upbasin of an ancient tarn and usually forms part of a series wherea valley happens to have been cut through alternating layers ofhard and soft rock. Thus, a single valley may contain a chain,or staircase, of jasses. People who belittle or deny the erosiveaction of ice have some difficulty in accounting for these. The
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Page 7 and 8: A RIDE IN ICELAND 127are quite obsc
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Page 11 and 12: CARROCK FELLBY MABEL BARKERIn the e
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Page 24 and 25: 142TWO NEW CLIMBSBY A. T. HARGREAVE
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215CLIMBS OLD AND NEWBY A. T. HARGR
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219THE LONDON SECTIONWe are present
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LONDON SECTION 221This year, 1933,
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