[jay1949]

I’m gonna *so* regret saying this but we don’t have “streams” here, we have “runs”.

Plenty of runs here (SW VA), and we have a lot of "forks" also. "He lives up Lacy's Branch off Lester's Fork."

[Salamander]

Yup but ‘forks’ and ‘branches’ seem to be predominantly an eastern-state phenomenon here.

[maybe they just wanted to keep things -extremely- simple, here]...LOL

We do have a few ferrys and fords when headed towards the WV border on the Potomac.

[which is a river but everybody just says “The Potomac” because saying “river” would be redundant since everybody knows it’s the river]...:))

Damn near every little town and village near me is named after something watery.

I always figured the pioneers must’ve been *really* thirsty by the time they got this far on the wagon trail.

My brain hurts.