Rivulets - a common word in your country?
By Judy Evans
@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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@Jessabuma (31696)
• Baguio, Philippines
2 Jul 18
No we don't have .. it's actually my first time hearing it
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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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@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
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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@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.
























