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I'm in North America, and one of the questions that struck me was naming a running body of water smaller than a river. My answer was based on the naming of bod

by scj 8y ago

I'm in North America, and one of the questions that struck me was naming a running body of water smaller than a river. My answer was based on the naming of bodies of water near where I grew up, which originated from English settlers... I'd be interested in seeing something similar that captures all areas where English is spoken as a first language.

jacobush 8y ago
To me as a Swede, it was interesting to see so many cognates with Swedish. Often, I could have chosen a downright Swedish word if I wanted to. "beck" for the running body of water smaller than a river for instance.
cannam 8y ago
This older quiz from the same source, covering the US, came up in a comment here the other day: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz... The questions are quite different (presumably chosen based on what will segment readers suitably) and I don't recall anything about running bodies of water. So we don't get to compare, and it isn't sufficient to answer what you want - but it's interesting if you haven't seen it already.
davidw 8y ago
Creeks and the like are an interesting one. Small valleys too: gully, gulch, arroyo, hollow, etc... https://roaringbrookmaps.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/what-do-you-call-that-narrow-valley/ https://roaringbrookmaps.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/what-do-yo... Interesting to see the diversity in Oregon, Washington, and Utah.
- vram22 8y ago
  Vale.
vram22 8y ago
>one of the questions that struck me was naming a running body of water smaller than a river. Interesting. Brook, stream, rivulet are some that come to mind, off the top of my head. >I'd be interested in seeing something similar that captures all areas where English is spoken as a first language. Agreed.

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I'm in North America, and one of the questions that struck me was naming a running body of water smaller than a river. My answer was based on the naming of bod

by scj 8y ago

jacobush 8y ago
To me as a Swede, it was interesting to see so many cognates with Swedish. Often, I could have chosen a downright Swedish word if I wanted to. "beck" for the running body of water smaller than a river for instance.
cannam 8y ago
This older quiz from the same source, covering the US, came up in a comment here the other day: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz... The questions are quite different (presumably chosen based on what will segment readers suitably) and I don't recall anything about running bodies of water. So we don't get to compare, and it isn't sufficient to answer what you want - but it's interesting if you haven't seen it already.
davidw 8y ago
Creeks and the like are an interesting one. Small valleys too: gully, gulch, arroyo, hollow, etc... https://roaringbrookmaps.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/what-do-you-call-that-narrow-valley/ https://roaringbrookmaps.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/what-do-yo... Interesting to see the diversity in Oregon, Washington, and Utah.
- vram22 8y ago
  Vale.
vram22 8y ago
>one of the questions that struck me was naming a running body of water smaller than a river. Interesting. Brook, stream, rivulet are some that come to mind, off the top of my head. >I'd be interested in seeing something similar that captures all areas where English is spoken as a first language. Agreed.