River

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River | Definition and Translations
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

By Ralf Herrmann (April 29, 2016)
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Posted April 29, 2016

Perhaps it would be better to match singular and plural between translations (i.e., for example, rivers=canaletti, river=canaletto).

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Ralf Herrmann 1,426

Posted April 29, 2016

Always feel free to correct any problems you see with the terms in your native language. That’s why it’s set up as Wiki.

In this specific case, it was easier to change the English entry to resolve it. So I did that.

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