Wissant

It finally reads and sounds good enough to stop pondering the alteration of either. btw, in my recording I pronounce Wissant "WESson" and Bruges "BREW jiz," as I believe once, across the Channel, their names were spoken.

Enciclopedia dantesca, gen. ed. Umberto Bosco, 6 vols (Treccani, 1970-1976) Miglior acque 2007

He, as does Longfellow 12 years later, takes Guizzante to be Cadsand, not Wissant.

Enciclopedia dantesca, gen. ed. Umberto Bosco, 6 vols (Treccani, 1970-1976) Miglior acque 2007

It only recently hit me that Guizzante does not sound or look like Wissant--and I should look for an equivalent foreignism.

Enciclopedia dantesca, gen. ed. Umberto Bosco, 6 vols (Treccani, 1970-1976) Miglior acque 2007

Nonetheless, it would be a good two hours before Wissant was serviceable again.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

St. Omer was out of action for four hours, Lille for four, Wissant for three, while the burning wreckage of St.kas, Heinkel 111's and Messerschmitts testified to the proficiency of the RAF's bomb aimers.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

So at dusk the little Storch aircraft made another flight from Wissant to Lympne, escorted again by four of the ME 109's from Galland's Wing.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

Five Wellingtons, six Blenheims, three Hurricanes and two Spitfires had all been shot down either by flak or by the Mes-serschmitts in attacks on Calais airfield and on Wissant.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

Its squadrons had recently moved to strips around Wissant, close by Cap Gris Nez where Kesselring had brought the advance Headquarters of his Second Air Fleet.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

The next day they rode toward Boulogne and came to the town of Wissant: there the king and the prince lodged, and tarried there a day to refresh his men, and on the Wednesday the king came before the strong town of Calais.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

Cologne, from Besançon to Wissant, not one town could show its walls uninjured, not one village its houses unshaken.

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