<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Rory McCann <<a href="mailto:rory@technomancy.org">rory@technomancy.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Karl Newman wrote:<br>
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Wow, that's not obvious to the casual (non-UK) observer. In the US, the usage of "canal" is different. They're almost never navigable, and even small drainage ditches are commonly called "canals". Almost no-one here would call any kind of waterway a "drain". Definitely clarify that on the Wiki.<br>
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So what do you call the big man made 'rivers' that barges go down?<br><font color="#888888">
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Rory<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>I did say *almost* never. Certainly there are large navigable canals (more common in the Eastern US) but if you were to look at the sum total of all the waterways called "canals" here, the navigable ones would make up a tiny portion.<br>
<br>Karl<br>