That night they camped on a small eyot close to the western bank. A long whitish hand could be dimly seen as it shot out and grabbed the gunwale; two pale lamplike eyes shone coldly as they peered inside, and then they lifted and gazed up at Frodo on the eyot. Still there are dangerous places even before we come there: rocks and stony eyots in the stream. There were three lines of flat stepping-stones across the stream, and between them fords for horses, that went from either brink to a bare eyot in the midst.
Does context suffice?
You can look it up now, if you’d like. It’s a small river island. The etymology is interesting.
Etymology: OE. íʒʒað, íʒeoð was perh. a dim. of íeʒ, íʒ, island (though the ordinary power of -að was to make abstr. nouns, as in huntað hunting). The subsequent phonetic history is obscure: the normal descendant of íʒʒað would be ieth (cf. flieth); the vowel of ME. eyt might arise from an OE. variant éʒað, as in éʒ isle for íʒ (cf. also ONor. eið ‘peninsula,’ in Shetland eid ‘a tongue of land’); but the t is unexplained; the later -et, and mod. -ot, are artificial spellings after islet (MFr. islette) and mod.Fr. îlot.
An islet or small isle; especially one in a river, as the aits or eyots of the Thames.
"The surname Tolkien is said to come from the German word tollkühn ('foolhardy'). German writers have suggested that in reality the name is more likely to derive from the village Tolkynen in Rastenburg in East Prussia (after WWII Tołkiny, Poland)."
> Kha is the twenty-second letter of the Russian alphabet. It represents the consonant /x/ unless it is before a palatalizing vowel when it represents /xʲ/.
> ‘I believed that you were a friend before the letter came,’ he said, ‘or at least I wished to. You have frightened me several times tonight, but never in the way that servants of the Enemy would, or so I imagine. I think one of his spies would – well, seem fairer and feel fouler, if you understand.’
Should developments be countable?
Some web site use developments
e.g. http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/
While some web site use development
e.g. http://www.un.org/en/development/
@RegDwightАΑA Aye, I could have been expressing a lack of testicular fortitude. That was the point. Especially ironic due to the proximity of a vocative coño.
Not all parenthetical expressions need to be set off by parentheses (or commas, or what have you). It can be argued that title is the subject of that sentence, and the entire reference to tone is ancillary to it. Moreover, "as well as" doesn't perform quite the same function as the conjunction an...
@Jez If the so called "Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act" is invoked in this particular case, then that means in effect that Political Asylum cannot be granted by any embassy located in the UK without the UK's approval.
I know that children's books is correct, but for some reason I want to say kids books, even though I know that it's a plural possessive noun ending in an 's'. A quick search on the web turns up Barnes & Noble: they have a web page title that says "Children's Books, Kids Books". Is the major b...
Should developments be countable?
Some web site use developments
e.g. http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/
While some web site use development
e.g. http://www.un.org/en/development/
I know that children's books is correct, but for some reason I want to say kids books, even though I know that it's a plural possessive noun ending in an 's'. A quick search on the web turns up Barnes & Noble: they have a web page title that says "Children's Books, Kids Books". Is the major b...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…