Why “lake” is being discussed
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I Tested a New Intel Wildcat Lake CPU
by teleforce · Sep 9, 2026 · 2 points
CHUWI UniBook with Intel Wildcat Lake for a $449 Linux-Friendly Laptop
by teleforce · Sep 9, 2026 · 2 points
The pattern is "take a place name and change the last word to America" (Gulf of America, Lake America, New America) The fact that applying that to produce "South America" which…
by anonymars · Sep 9, 2026
Stop with the strawman arguments; am not equating internet words and meaningless upvotes with real action. I am also not even close to claiming such disobedience is sufficient.…
by toss1 · Sep 9, 2026
It's incredibly common for different countries that share geographic features to have different names for the same geographic feature. The English channel / the sleeve (fra…
by FloorEgg · Sep 9, 2026
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A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from the ocean, although they may be connected with the ocean by outflowing rivers. Lakes, like other bodies of water, are part of the water cycle, the processes by which water moves around the Earth. Most lakes are fresh water and account for almost all the world's surface freshwater, but some are salt lakes with salinities even higher than that of seawater. Lakes vary significantly in surface area and volume of water, but in total cover approximately 2.5 X 106 km2 (less than 2%) of the Earth's surface. Read more on Wikipedia