The
big question ? A lot of
people ask me "What is an Eyott" when
I was searching for a name for
our
company I was browsing through some
survey terms and I found this old
term ( Eyot ) that was used A Long time
ago in England ( Also meaning A
small island arising from a river ).
I thought this
was pretty cool plus it was available on
godaddy
An ait (or eyot) is a
small island found in
the middle of a river or lake. It is
especially used to refer to islands
found on the River
Thames
in England.[1]
Aits are typically formed by the
deposition of sediment
in the water, which accumulates over a
period of time. An ait is
characteristically long and narrow, and
may become a permanent island.
However, aits may also be eroded: the
resulting sediment is deposited
further downstream and could result in
another ait. A channel with
numerous aits is called a braided
channel.
The words "ait" and "eyot" are not
common in modern English,
although a few famous writers have used
it, including J.
R. R. Tolkien
in his Lord
of the
Rings books, and Charles
Dickens
in Bleak
House.
More
recently,
it
was
used
by Terry
Pratchett
in the first of the Discworld
books, The
Colour of
Magic. As
you
can
see
this
word
could
be
pronounced
like
the
number
8.
We
added
the
extra
"T"
and
pronounce
it
E-Yott