NPPF Bera Range

[Jasper Fidget]

> > Both mean "bear", the animal, as
> > do
> > the other words in the OED etymology. The American Heritage dictionary
> > gives the Indo-European root as "Bher-. Bright, brown."
> >
> > Though perhaps beer can be bright or even brown, the word "beer" comes
> > from
> > an entirely different root.
> >
> > I wonder whether the Welsh mountains are bears as in Old English or are
> > bright brown. My dictionary gives no Welsh derivatives from "bher".
> >
> > Mary Krimmel
> >
> 
> Woops, yes I should have marked for italics in the etymology.  A Dutch
> beer
> could have been interesting though (drunken Hamlets?)....  I think the
> Welsh
> mountains are bears, perhaps in accordance with the constellations Big and
> Little Bear (aka Dippers).
> 
> JF

Which make me wonder (the bears do) whether there's some kind of Goldilocks
thing going on in the bore (farmhouse) of that grunter (farmer), considering
Garh's "yellow hair" and Charles drowsiness there.

Also, ignore the bit about drunken Hamlets (I'm always confusing the Dutch
with the Danes for some reason).

JF