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Subject: Re: [OM] perhaps this needs translation...
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:01:29 +0100
No, it's a collective noun (phrase), Andrew, therefore singular.

I'll find out more while I am there, but the most cutting would have been of 
reeds, surely, for thatching.

Chris

On 9 Jun 2010, at 23:52, Andrew Fildes wrote:

> 'Are' a system surely? They are regarded as multiple individual  
> lakes. :-)
> Their origin is from peat cutting, I once read but thought it unlikely  
> for many reasons.
> 'Broad waters', as opposed to rivers.
> Andrew Fildes
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/06/2010, at 6:45 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> 
>> The Norfolk Broads is a system of inland waterways and lakes in  
>> Norfolk, East Anglia.  It's a cluster of nature reserves as well as  
>> being a place of beauty, albeit rather flat.
> 

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