why some are lake so and so ,and others are ,so and so lake ?
958706
The history of geographic naming is interesting, often in the past things were named in a very casual way.  The US Geological Survey maintains a geographic names database, you might be able to look up the history of particular lake names there, or even ask them a question.
1096050
Because people interpret things differently
1004729
Yes. And lakes, land masses, nay number of thing. (The larger the object the greater the effect, the less viscous the object the greater the effect.)\n\nLots of details at source below.
950722
water in form of seas ,river,oceans,pond etc
492586
So, and the question is???????????????
12598
Because the water collects minerals from the floor of the ocean and so on and it isn't circulated or "refreshed" as a freshwater lake would be.  For instance, the Great Lakes are freshwater because they constantly drain out into the oceans.  The water is replenished all the time, not just sitting in one spot.  It doesn't give them time to collect the minerals to get salty.  If a lake, such as the Great Salt Lake in Utah, doesn't have this circulation (not sure what the scientific word is for it, but there is one), a place to drain so the water can be replenished, it becomes salty because it absorbs the minerals.
249815
Which one.. There are several
974922
rocks : see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocks\nlakes : see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes
413456
Size. Lakes are bigger but there is no official \ndifference. It's arbitrary or subjective.
1177723
Damn you, lake! Damn you!  \n\nIt's actually "dammed."  I don't think "damning" a lake would do much to preserve it. :-)\n\nI think rather than building your own dam, you need to work on getting the other one removed.  If you're coming at this from an environmental perspective, fewer dams has got to be better.  Please don't build another one--you CAN fight to have the other dam removed.
627351
This question is impossible to answer,and in fact I reckon you're trying to make a point rather than get real answers.It's a valid enough point if you must make it,and many Americans are the first to admit that their knowledge of world geography isn't great,but what I'd like to know is what rioedgebravo is talking about.I'm guessing that he's accusing you of using English that isn't up to par,while at the same time reading your question and misunderstanding it,thinking that 'other' means 'their own.'So perhaps it isn't your English that's so bad.
30678
This is kind of like asking how many mountains are there, and then realizing you don't know how to distinguish a mountain from a mole hill. Until you can define how large a body of water makes a lake (are ponds lakes?), there is no definite answer. \n\nMinnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes, and yet some estimates put it at 15,000 lakes.  Here's a lake index for Minnesota: http://www.rook.org/earl/bwca/lakes/#Index\n\nIn order to ge a first order approximation for you, I ran a search on the USGS Place Names index and got an error message that the server was down. . They don't have it completed, so several states are still missing.  You might try a search on this place names index. using "lake" as your feature class , I also tried a search using Google Earth, and got only a handful of features. Obviously Google Earth is still being built.
608330
Some are, some aren't.
41972
thats not necessarily true. Heard of Great Bear Lake or the Great slave lake from Canada?
569388
Variety is the spice of life. I'm not really sure...maybe it's to make sure than one side isn't worn more than the other, easier to play/run on, and both are given a better chance at a fair game by doing so, not to mentio the ecological factors such as glare from the sun, and wind direction. That's totally a guess.
22175
Some rivers dont they can finish in a lake thats inland. Water just flows downhill till its at the lowest level it can find which is usually the sea
816264
This is so-and-so.  We do such-and-such together.\n\nMuch more informative.