Showing posts with label Stranded. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stranded. Show all posts

Dec 2, 2016

Wordology, Strand

The name of the famous street near the River Thames in London comes from the German word ‘Strand’, which means beach in modern German, but also once referred to river banks.

That is also why, if you are left on a desert island beach helpless and alone, you would be described as ‘stranded’.