Talk:Mere (lake)

message: Perhaps more appropriate for Wiktionary than for Wikipedia? MikeLHenderson 15:40, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiktionary?

message: The only person who would not find the subject worthy of note would be the one who is determined to remain ignorant and an encyclopaedia is not the place for him.
The subject is much more worthy of note than the assorted pop 'singers' and soap opera 'actors' who have a mention.
Rather than discussing the deletion or merging of the page, get on and write an article, adding what you know and leaving out what you don't. Remove only that which is misleading. If in doubt, discuss it. That is where this page comes in.
That's the way Wikipedia works. (RJP 12:36, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability

message: Having made a spelling check, I find that I have reverted an edit which had changed Ijsselmeer to IJsselmeer. I have no special knowledge of the correctness of either but was guided by Microsoft's software. I find that some atlases have it one way, some the other and in some it is all in upper case so I have left the reversion to stand. If you know the double capital to be correct, please put it right. If so, please leave a note here as I am intrigued to learn the reasoning behind it. :) (RJPe (talk) 11:11, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: IJ is a digraph of the letters i and j used in Dutch! If you read the article IJ it explanes it all ;-) Scoub (talk) 20:08, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. (RJPe (talk) 10:06, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: IJsselmeer

message: We say mere in British English. Is this needed? I'm wondering if there's an alternative use in another form of English. Pikemaster (talk) 22:02, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  British English 

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message: I find this phrasing somewhat peculiar
 particularly in Great Britain and other parts of western Europe.
as it implies that shallow lakes are particular to Great Britain and western Europe (which they are not).
I suggest this would be more precise:
Mere is a British English word for a shallow lake, pond, or wetland.
--Honymand (talk) 18:28, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Area or language 

message: The Dutch word for mere is actually 'ven'. Which is of course very similar to the Fens mentioned, so I thought I'd tell you about it. A 'ven' is like a large pond: less deep and (generally much) smaller in area than a lake ('meer'), and they often come in groups. Roentie (talk) 11:09, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some additional info for Meres in the Netherlands