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..and major streams. Don't forget major streams!
I don't know shit though, I just pulled that from Wikipedia to support a really bad pun.🤣
I think "major streams" are more generally referred to as "rivers."
Maybe it's a translation issue, we have
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Maybe they just have the 2 words so there's information lost in translation?
That's a wildly incomplete list. I guess if you're out east, that might feel like a full list, but if you've ever lived somewhere with arroyos, you've never experienced brooks or runs. I mean, short of Mel Brooks and having diarrhea.
There's an old joke about growing up in Phoenix: That one does not associate rivers or bridges with water.