Rivers, or rivers of white are gaps which appear to run through a paragraph of text, due to a coincidental alignment of spaces.
Dutch: riviertjes
French: lézarde
German: Gießbach, Gasse
Italian: canaletto
Polish: kanalik
Portuguese: Rio
Russian: Коридор
Spanish: río, calle
Turkish: Nehir
Related Term(s): Justified Word spacing

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