154: beach May 11, 2015

With summer encroaching, or approaching, however your outlook on life may dictate, thoughts of white sand beach vacations grow evermore tangible, even palpable. The word 'beach' is possibly related to Old English "bæce, bece", but because England is hardly any tropical paradise, the word from which 'beach' may derive means 'brook', and a later sense of this word was "pebbly river valley"; the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes didn't quite have the sense of beaches that we do today, but as worldview changes, so does language.