User talk:Bentnose

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What is the rationale underlying the naming of rivers creeks and streams? Is it "permanence"? Length of watercourse? Where it empties? I read an article at one time for example which suggested that the Mississippi river was really more the Missouri River? I live in a city (Regina Saskatchewan) which is on a "creek" Wascana Creek which empties into a "river" Qu'appelle river. The "creek" has been in existence for more than a hundred years as it's name Wascana or "Pile of Bones" was a plains cree indian name for a slough on the river where Buffalo or Bison were butchered. I have a place in northern saskatchewan which crosses the "Barrier" river which doesn't appear to be as geographically long as Wascana Creek but it empties into Barrier Lake?