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Length

Correct me if I am mistaken, but isn't the Colorado River longer than the Brazos?

• According to the Handbook of Texas online, the Colorado is 600 miles long, and the Brazos is 840. Deh 20:29, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • But according to the Wikipedia article, the Colorado is 894 miles long. The Handbook says that the Colorado is the "largest" river wholly in Texas, when measured in "length and drainage area", but doesn't specify what that means, and says that the Brazos is "the longest river in Texas". So despite all these words, I don't claim to know the answer. But let me tell you to watch out for alligator garr. very big, very scary. Deh 20:43, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

There are also conflicting reports on the length of the river. This page List_of_rivers_of_Texas refers to the Brazos as being 1,280 miles long with 840 of those miles in Texas.

Dams?

The article says the river is dammed is three places, and then details a fourth dam. So which is it? - ¢Spender1983 (talk) 15:52, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Brazzis?

This refers to the click-to-play pronunciation and the related hieroglyphics. I'm a long-time Texan, but not a native Texan, so I checked this with my very native Texan esposa. Neither of us has ever heard anyone refer to the "Brazzis" river. It's pronounced "Brawzos," closer to the correct Spanish pronunciation. We're from Houston and the Hill Country; maybe some folks in North Texas say Brazzis, but I doubt it. I don't claim that Texans don't mangle their nomenclature: for those of you who are not Texans, good luck pronouncing Guadalupe, San Felipe, Greune, Boerne, Pedernales, Llano, Mexia, Marathon, Burnet, and Refugio. I'm not impolite enough to delete the existing soundbite without input from others; would someone please look into this and see about correction? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gjmokcb (talk • contribs) 16:54, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

I agree. I've lived here quite awhile and it always bugs me when people say "brazzes", "brassis", "brazuhs", or any other variation (there's a few). It's likely most people learned it by rote instead of in written form and it just stuck, just like "water-burger" instead of "what-a-burger". Most of the people I know here use the pronunciations interchangeably, including on the news and commercials. In casual conversation friends might say "brazzes", but if I ask the same individuals directly how they pronounce it, often they'll say "bra-zos". I've also noticed that those with a distinct Texan accent will usually always say "brazzes" (they'll also always say "water-burger" no matter how many times you ask), but Hispanics here will always say "bra-zos". I found this forum post (posted a couple months before the sound clip was first uploaded) which discussed the pronunciations but there's no clear consensus other than usually locals say "brazzes". The pronunciation guides were likely based on the first uploaded sound clip since none was provided with it. Dictionary.com lists the correct pronunciation first, followed by the alternate pronunciations labeled as "locally". I agree a new sound clip should be uploaded, but if you feel bad about removing the old one, could always leave it and relabel it as "locally", following the same approach as Dictionary.com. (I wonder what sources they use to determine local pronunciations. . .) 50.24.119.155 (talk) 01:41, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

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Prisons

Can anyone find supporting material for the claim that most Texas prisons were once located on the Brazos? MostlyTexasArticles (talk) 16:30, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Division between East and West Texas

Can anyone substantiate the claim that "it is sometimes used to mark the boundary between East Texas and West Texas"? I don't think anyone would call San Antonio or Austin "West Texas", or claim that Waco is on the boundary between the two regions. At best, it seems much closer to the point of division between East Texas and Central Texas, and even that I don't think is divided by the river itself. ZLump (talk) 18:15, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

The upper part of the river is could be seen as the line between North and West Texas, I suppose. They're fuzzy terms. From the West Texas article, I found this:

"The historian and geographer Walter Prescott Webb has suggested that the 98th meridian separates East and West Texas; writer A.C. Greene proposed that West Texas extends west of the Brazos River. Use of a single line, though, seems to preclude the use of other separators, such as an area—Central Texas."

So, while I think the claim is odd and not very mainstream, it is true that "it is sometimes used to mark the boundary between East and West Texas". I'm not sure it's a perspective worth including in the first paragraph of the article without clarification, however. ZLump (talk) 18:20, 27 October 2024 (UTC)