It struck me the other day that the naming of English rivers has been quite spectacularly duplicative - there must be a dozen or possibly far more (I haven't tried counting) river names which are repeated at least once, often with multiple rivers of the same name. Just for example, there are five different significant Rivers Stour:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Stour
Part of the explanation, perhaps unsurprisingly, is that a lot of the names have meanings (often in the Celtic language of the folk who lived here before the Anglo-Saxon invasion) like "river" or "water" (e.g. Ouse, Avon):
https://canalrivertrustwaterfront.or...f-river-names/
Even allowing for that factor, though, the number of repeated river names around England is very striking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Stour
Part of the explanation, perhaps unsurprisingly, is that a lot of the names have meanings (often in the Celtic language of the folk who lived here before the Anglo-Saxon invasion) like "river" or "water" (e.g. Ouse, Avon):
https://canalrivertrustwaterfront.or...f-river-names/
Even allowing for that factor, though, the number of repeated river names around England is very striking.
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