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I am struggling to get my head round the below fact
Aatomic1 ( talk) 00:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
I don't have access to Heaney's intro to Beowulf but does he really say that the river name comes from uisce meaning whiskey/whisky? Heaney would surely have known that whiskey/whisky derives from the words 'uisce/uisge beatha' ('water of life'). If the river name derives from this source at all, then it is simply from the first of these two words. cheers Geopersona ( talk) 06:17, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Etc. etc. - so, not a scholarly citation but a second-hand reference to the standard derivation of the name. I've removed it from the text here. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 08:50, 28 December 2011 (UTC)"...[I]n my first arts year at Queen's University, Belfast... we were lectured on the history of the English Language by Professor John Braidwood. Braidwood could not help informing us, for example, that the word 'whiskey' is the same word as the Irish and Scots Gaelic word uisce, meaning water, and that the River Usk in Britain is therefore to some extent the River Uisce (or Whiskey); and so in my mind the stream was suddenly turned into a kind of linguistic river of rivers issuing from a pristine Celto-British Land of Cockaigne....."
The infobox has a section 'cities' which has been populated with the names of several settlements of various size along the length of the river. Only one of these - Newport - is actually a city, the others are towns and even, in Sennybridge's case, a mere village. Either we ought to delete all but Newport or else adjust the infobox to read 'settlements' or similar. Part of a wider issue one imagines, though I've not checked. Thoughts? cheers Geopersona ( talk) 19:07, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
I can add the same map as included in the new River Teifi Geobox, thought I would check here first. Jokulhlaup ( talk) 16:28, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
I've been researching the river for a presentation I'm doing and have come across different measurements of its length - the article currently says 102km but I saw another which reckoned on 125km ( https://naturalresources.wales/media/3214/usk-management-catchment.pdf) - one that I shall insert in place of the erroneous and so far as I can see unreferenced figure currently. Quite some discrepancy. I took to measuring it myself and came up with 133.4km which I strongly believe to be less than the true figure, since I cut corners. The problem of course is perhaps mainly about the scale at which we measure - an old chestnut - same goes for coastlines. In any case it's always changing as meanders enlarge and get cut off and there's the question as to which channel to follow when it splits mid-course etc etc. I can't contribute my figure other than in this discussion because its OR but I do flag up a warning in such matters. Note too that the area of the catchment is given as 1358sq km in a scanned doc from the 1990s and accompanied by a map of what looks correct as the Usk catchment 'proper' but that for administrative purposes, NRW includes various watercourses on the Gwent Levels draining directly to the sea within their 'Usk catchment'. cheers Geopersona ( talk) 11:04, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
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I am struggling to get my head round the below fact
Aatomic1 ( talk) 00:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
I don't have access to Heaney's intro to Beowulf but does he really say that the river name comes from uisce meaning whiskey/whisky? Heaney would surely have known that whiskey/whisky derives from the words 'uisce/uisge beatha' ('water of life'). If the river name derives from this source at all, then it is simply from the first of these two words. cheers Geopersona ( talk) 06:17, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Etc. etc. - so, not a scholarly citation but a second-hand reference to the standard derivation of the name. I've removed it from the text here. Ghmyrtle ( talk) 08:50, 28 December 2011 (UTC)"...[I]n my first arts year at Queen's University, Belfast... we were lectured on the history of the English Language by Professor John Braidwood. Braidwood could not help informing us, for example, that the word 'whiskey' is the same word as the Irish and Scots Gaelic word uisce, meaning water, and that the River Usk in Britain is therefore to some extent the River Uisce (or Whiskey); and so in my mind the stream was suddenly turned into a kind of linguistic river of rivers issuing from a pristine Celto-British Land of Cockaigne....."
The infobox has a section 'cities' which has been populated with the names of several settlements of various size along the length of the river. Only one of these - Newport - is actually a city, the others are towns and even, in Sennybridge's case, a mere village. Either we ought to delete all but Newport or else adjust the infobox to read 'settlements' or similar. Part of a wider issue one imagines, though I've not checked. Thoughts? cheers Geopersona ( talk) 19:07, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
I can add the same map as included in the new River Teifi Geobox, thought I would check here first. Jokulhlaup ( talk) 16:28, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
I've been researching the river for a presentation I'm doing and have come across different measurements of its length - the article currently says 102km but I saw another which reckoned on 125km ( https://naturalresources.wales/media/3214/usk-management-catchment.pdf) - one that I shall insert in place of the erroneous and so far as I can see unreferenced figure currently. Quite some discrepancy. I took to measuring it myself and came up with 133.4km which I strongly believe to be less than the true figure, since I cut corners. The problem of course is perhaps mainly about the scale at which we measure - an old chestnut - same goes for coastlines. In any case it's always changing as meanders enlarge and get cut off and there's the question as to which channel to follow when it splits mid-course etc etc. I can't contribute my figure other than in this discussion because its OR but I do flag up a warning in such matters. Note too that the area of the catchment is given as 1358sq km in a scanned doc from the 1990s and accompanied by a map of what looks correct as the Usk catchment 'proper' but that for administrative purposes, NRW includes various watercourses on the Gwent Levels draining directly to the sea within their 'Usk catchment'. cheers Geopersona ( talk) 11:04, 25 April 2020 (UTC)