Talk:Coteau du Missouri

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[edit] The Coteau du Missouri, or Missouri Plateau

In Canadian schools I was taught "the Missouri Couteau", and its meaning as I recall it was not the higher prairie west of it, but the strip of descending land between the higher lands west of it and those lower ones to the east. A couteau is a knife-cut in French, a slice, something cut; it's not something flat. It's interesting that, as it seems, on the use side the full French-form name is used ("du Couteau") but in Canadian English it's usually just the Missouri Couteau. And it doesn't refer to the plateau above it, but to that plateau's edge. From what I recall anyway, can't provide an immediate source, just happened to notice this. Alberta and maybe Saskatchewan Wikiprojects, if any, should probably also be added, and the opening line adjusted for the different meaning/usage I've provided, which should be common enough in any standard Canadian geography textbook.Skookum1 21:00, 8 November 2007 (UTC)