Vocabulary meme

via intertext

I grew up in the north of England, lower middle-class with working-class grandparents, but I've spent the last ten years in the Southwestern US, and my reading and TV incorporated a fair bit of American output for years before that.

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
stream or brook

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