This book, 20 years in the making, is the definitive guide to the generic terms, which describe water flowing in a natural or artificial channel, which have appeared in print in the national languages of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic and the Isle of Man. 2000 entries; language lists; definitions; etymologies and roots where possible; variant forms; 400 plus map references; hundreds of cross references to relative place and river name sources and suggestions for further reading, and, in addition, a 550 plus bibliography. A must for watercourse...