Talk:Bay

Bay
Why is it blank?????
 * It's not...--Seba5618 (talk) 00:10, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The Bay can be different from Cove. The Bay looks just like the Oval Cove but with the river mouth adjacent to the shore of the bay. The Cove have no river mouth. Creek mouth is much smaller than river mouth in where it is comparatively in the capacity of the water flowing through the mouth of the blight. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.243.117 (talk) 20:43, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

A fjord is NOT a sub-type of Bay
A fjord is NOT a type of bay. This is an incorrect use of the word bay. (The main article on Fjords also makes this error when if refers to Bays so please do not use this as a reference or support!).

It is NOT case that a bay is any area largely surrounded by land (and with a fjord as a sub-type of bay). A bay specifically has the sense of an open or rounded (usually both) area of water, largely surrounded by land. A bay is not a narrow inlet. There is no one English word that covers both senses. Rather we have two words covering different geographic features. Please see dictionary definitions of ford which describe a narrow inlet (and does not refer to bay).

(Guessing: the English word for Bay does not have the sense of narrow inlet because England does not really have any narrow inlets/fjords so had no need for the word!. Hence why English adopted and uses Fjord. Note that Scotland does have narrow sea inlets which are either sea lochs or firths. And firth is derived from Scandinavian (or proto-) fjord).

Suggested edit: I would remove the mention of fjord entirely. Possibly put Fjord under See Also....? Iainmacg (talk) 16:44, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

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Move discussion in progress
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