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What Is a Brook?
brook is a different old english word that is actually related to the german brauchen, which means to need. It can mean a stream or a minor tributary, but we turn to use it for a kind of narrow inlet. More often than not, creaks don't creak because that's a spelt differently. But brooks do babble. Why do brooks babble? I don't know. Maybe there was a very influential poem at some point where the poets, you know, used a little onomatpi and illusteration for the babbling brook. In english people like alfred lord tennyson. There are babbling
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