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I THINK NATURE should take note of a short article by Prof. Skeat in the number of Notes and Queries for September 16, wherein he points out that vole is corrupt Norwegian for field, and that therefore a water-vole is a water-field, a field-vole a field-field, and a bank-vole a bank-field.
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DALLAS, J. Vole. Nature 60, 546 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060546a0
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