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River

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: Aguas
🇹🇷 Turkish: Nehir

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By Ralf Herrmann ()

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    Riccardo Sartori

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

    Ralf Herrmann

    Admin

    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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