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Muret Sanders's “Encyclopädisches Wörterbuch” gives “riegel,” in addition to the various ordinary meanings of the word “bar,” including a bar of soap, eleven other meanings. What advantage is there in the use of a German term over an English term when both have equally varied meanings? The term “riegel” is especially overloaded, as in geography, according to Grimm's “Deutsches Wörterbuch,” it is used in South Germany for a “kleine Anhöhe, steiler Absatz eines Berges,” and he also quotes its use for a watershed.
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Glacial Nomenclature and Scott's Antarctic Expedition. Nature 98, 150 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098150a0
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