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Laura May, PhD's avatar

So fun fact: the English for rĂ­a is ria - it's actually a word we've acquired from Galician! It means a flooded glacier valley, or something like that. Years ago I worked with a guy in the UK who banged on about how Salcombe Estuary wasn't an estuary but rather a ria. The more you know, I guess.

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