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Pennines

pen·ni·nes

uncommon

noun

1.

a system of hills in England that extend from the Scottish border in the north to the Trent River in the south; forms the watershed for English rivers

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Usually connected to the Italian Apennines, originally borrowed from Latin Apenninus by Latin scribes and subsequently losing its initial A by rebracketing or aphesis. Alternatively, possibly derived directly from a Celtic language; by surface analysis, Proto-Brythonic *penn (“(hill) top, head”) plus -ine.

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