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femmenietzsche:

beach (n.)

1530s, “loose, water-worn pebbles of the seashore,” probably from a dialectal survival of Old English bece, bece “stream,” from Proto-Germanic *bakiz. Extended to loose, pebbly shores (1590s), and in dialect around Sussex and Kent beach still has the meaning “pebbles worn by the waves.” French gr\u00e8ve shows the same evolution.

Hmm, don’t like that transformation

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Alternate history where we call them strands

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