As I took a Mississippi river trip upstream from St. Louis to St. Paul, I realized that the mouth of a river is not near its origin but where it terminates.
Can you think of other misnomers to add to the list?
It merely makes the river a deuterostomate!
Makes sense though, what self respecting early explorer would go to the King and ask for funds to explore the butthole of the Mississippi?
::: Insert major off-color joke about “butt pirates” here ::::
:o
The “mouth” of Rome’s Tiber River is/was known as the cloaca.
I’ll be damned. One of my favorite people just returned from a St. Paul to St. Louis trip. Had I known I’d have told you to wave at him in passing. 
