User talk:-sche/Rivers/Adjectives

Some more

• Amazonian, Mississippian, Thamesian. Astral (talk) 00:42, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

  Nice; thanks! - -sche (discuss) 00:51, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

  Yangtzean, Gangean, Gangetic, Nilotic. Astral (talk) 03:32, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

  Orinocan + Euphratean. Astral (talk) 04:23, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

  Hudsonian + Tiberian. Also, though the rivers in question are mythological, Lethean and stygian. Astral (talk) 06:54, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

  Aha! I knew there had to be a more common adjective for "Nile" than "Nilean" (lol). - -sche (discuss) 07:32, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

River Plate

I was about to strip "River" from "River Plate", but my initial searching suggests it is indeed more commonly included than omitted, something that is not the case for other rivers. "Waters of the Plate", for example, gets 4 hits to 21 for "waters of the River Plate". Curious. Probably because homography creates too much ambiguity. "I want to go swimming in the plate, and dry off in the bowl." - -sche (discuss) 00:38, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

PS, thanks for all the additions, Metaknowledge! - -sche (discuss) 00:38, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I've noticed that phenomenon myself. I really enjoy searching for adjectives, but I think I've reached a kind of limit, because searches like google books:"Godavarian" or google books:"Mekongic" are not producing useful results. Also, the noise produced by searches like google books:"Yeniseian" is making it impossible to tell whether cites exist. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 00:44, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I found a few terms (marked NIR) that existed, apparently based on river names, but not actually used in reference to rivers. "Yeniseian" seems to be language only, since even usually-fruitful collocations like "Yeniseian region" are references to language...though I can't make quite tell what sense Michael Fortescue uses when he says "Recall also what was said in the previous section about the earlier house types on the Aleutians and in the Yeniseian region, which may have been taken over by people bringing different kinds of orientation systems with them." - -sche (discuss) 02:48, 15 February 2013 (UTC)