The word for "watercourse smaller than a river" are fascinatingly regional. Creek, crick, beck, brook, branch, fork, rill, race, run ... if you look for those in place names, you'll see geographic patterns that correspond to waves of settlement and local-culture dialects. See George R. Stewart's "Names On The Land" for a general treatment.
Well, in the first photo, it IS pretty white!
ReplyDeleteThe word for "watercourse smaller than a river" are fascinatingly regional.
ReplyDeleteCreek, crick, beck, brook, branch, fork, rill, race, run ... if you look for those in place names, you'll see geographic patterns that correspond to waves of settlement and local-culture dialects.
See George R. Stewart's "Names On The Land" for a general treatment.