How about if it's man-made, Tommy??ÿ ?ÿ We have quite a few flowing ditches around here.
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Perhaps then it becomes a "canal".
A word of caution...
Drains, canals and rivers aren't the same. In the states I am licensed in they are all governed by separate sections of code and treated very differently.
Words mean stuff.
Being from West Texas, I can't think if any watercourses that were flowing year round except for the Pecos, which is largely a muddy ditch filled with salt water. The smaller streams were called draws and usually only flowed during and shortly after a rain spell.
If you're the buyer, it's?ÿa stream.?ÿ If you're the seller, it's a river.?ÿ If you're a poet, it's a brook.
If you are in the Dutch settled northern New Jersey or the Hudson Valley then its a Kill
arroyo in So Cal?ÿ
A word of caution...
Drains, canals and rivers aren't the same. In the states I am licensed in they are all governed by separate sections of code and treated very differently.
Words mean stuff.
"Words mean stuff", they sure do. Down this way we were doing a rail bridge pier replacement project. Contractor built a earth platform half way into the thing that carries the water, and had it insured against loss/damage from flooding. Flood happens, platform washes way. Policy says "river flooding", Government map names the thing that carries the water as XX Creek. Insurance Co says event was creek flooding and not river flooding. Insurance Co, no pay.
Call it a creek, pronounce it "crick" your coworkers will laugh.
Spent 4 years in Wyoming, I call em cricks.
Being from Montana & Wyoming, we always called them "Cricks" too, even though they may have only run water once a year. We did call some of them draws, gulches, arroyos, swales, wadi, and a wash too.
