Rivulets - a common word in your country?

@JudyEv (382104)
Rockingham, Australia
July 2, 2018 3:33am CST
Tasmania is Australia’s wettest state and has dozens of rivers, creeks, streams and ….. rivulets! I’ve come across the word before but never seen it used in an official capacity as the name of a watercourse. The definition is that it is a small stream of water or other liquid. I didn’t manage to get a photo of any of the rivulets but this is another photo from the temperate rainforest near Strahan on the west coast of Tasmania. Felons who escaped from the penal settlement on Sarah Island were faced with wet, tangled conditions like this if they wished to escape. Although many tried to escape not too many succeeded. But getting back to rivulets, do you have named rivulets in your country?
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@YrNemo (20254)
2 Jul 18
Heard of that word from reading books, but never really seen people using it in real life. Any crocs or pythons there in Tasmania? (In my mind, I could visual a few pythons dangling from such scenery...)
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
No, no pythons. Tasmania does have three types of deadly snakes though and they'd be a hazard walking through this type of terrain.
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jul 18
@YrNemo Perhaps you could write about them and we'd all learn from your research.
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@YrNemo (20254)
3 Jul 18
@JudyEv I will go search wiki for their serpents.
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
2 Jul 18
Not that I know of. I have heard the word before but don't know of any that are named.
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
Maybe Tasmania is unique in this practice.
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Jul 18
@HazySue That's the most common connotation isn't it?
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
5 Jul 18
@JudyEv Could be. Every time I hear the name Tasmania it makes me think of the Tasmanian Devil.
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@LadyDuck (502491)
• Italy
2 Jul 18
The Italian word for "rivulets" is "rivoli", we do not give a name to rivulets.
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@LadyDuck (502491)
• Italy
3 Jul 18
@JudyEv Ravioli is pasta, rivoli is rivulets.
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
'Rivoli' sounds like a type of pasta.
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jul 18
@LadyDuck I know about ravioli, I meant a different type of pasta, maybe one I hadn't heard of.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
2 Jul 18
We have plenty of rivulets in our woods from the waterfall. I do love them.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
2 Jul 18
@JudyEv Exactly! We had rivulets from streams in our backyard growing up. They were so much fun for my brothers and I to play in.
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
They usually gurgle along which is the bit I love - the noise they make as they go on their merry way.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
2 Jul 18
Not that I'm aware of. Most would be called creeks. I think of rivulets as running water.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
2 Jul 18
@JudyEv It does make sense.
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
Most of these were running and quite small so they fitted the definition.
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@Jessabuma (31696)
• Baguio, Philippines
2 Jul 18
No we don't have .. it's actually my first time hearing it
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
So you've learnt a new word today!
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@Jessabuma (31696)
• Baguio, Philippines
3 Jul 18
@JudyEv yes, hehehe!!!
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@AKRao24 (27422)
• India
2 Jul 18
Interesting! i really don't think we have any named rivulets in our Country! Thanks!
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
It seems it's just used in Tasmania.
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@AKRao24 (27422)
• India
3 Jul 18
@JudyEv , yes that is quite possible ! Thanks!
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@minx267 (15526)
• Hartford, Connecticut
2 Jul 18
we don't have named rivulets.. but I have used the word before..
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@minx267 (15526)
• Hartford, Connecticut
3 Jul 18
@JudyEv No, probably not. I doubt that many people even use the word
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
Okay - that's interesting. It doesn't seem as though it is very common.
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
2 Jul 18
Rivulet is a word that is quite common I think. Can't think of any name.
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
It's an old-fashioned word, at least to my way of thinking.
@toniganzon (77184)
• Philippines
2 Jul 18
This is the first time I've heard of it.
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
It's not a very common word - except in Tasmania.
@toniganzon (77184)
• Philippines
3 Jul 18
@JudyEv Right. That seems to be really an exclusive thing in Tasmania.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
2 Jul 18
The smallest running water here are always called creeks.
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
We have creeks too but they wouldn't often be signed.
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@thelme55 (79324)
• Germany
2 Jul 18
This is the first time I read about rivulets.
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
I think it is quite an 'old' word, not used much now.
@responsiveme (22923)
• India
3 Jul 18
Yes, because my state is intercross with them .
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jul 18
Oh, that's interesting.
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• India
2 Jul 18
I never heard it in my country.
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
It must be just a term that someone in Tasmania liked.
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@GardenGerty (169477)
• United States
2 Jul 18
I have never encountered a named rivulet here, although I have heard the word. Usually in some poetic sense.
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
That's how I think of it too - a sort of poetic term.
@Icydoll (36713)
• India
2 Jul 18
No dear friend...I don't think we have
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Jul 18
There are none in Australia either - not on mainland Australia anyway.
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