Re: RICE, was Toponyms
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 18, 2004, 21:36 |
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In a message dated 9/18/2004 1:35:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jhchalmers@UCSD.EDU writes:
>The SF writer Jack Vance has written stories of the future which take
>place in "The Gaean Reach" as well as an earlier non-series story "To
>Live Forever," about the stresses of a society in which immortality can
>be earned. This characters of this story live in the "Reach of Clarges."
>These are the only examples known to me this AM of the use of 'reach' in
>this sense. (I admit to not having an OED handy.)
In Ursula K. LeGuin's _Earthsea_ books, parts of the Earthsea Archipelago are
called the "East Reach", "South Reach", etc. These areas could be seen as
reaching outwards from the center of the archipelago, and I had assumed that
this use of "reach" was her own invention, but I suppose it could be connected to
what you're discussing.
Doug
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