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Согласен. А что делать, к примеру с городом "Aberdon"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_River_%28disambiguation%29 Вот "доны" из "вики", география широкая - в Британии 4 штуки. Кроме того, в Шотландии есть реки оканчивающиеся на "ton". Есть реки с названием "Tyne" (одна в Шотландии, другая в Англии). По странному совпадению притоки у шотландской реки называются "burn". Nothing definite is known of the origin of the designation "Tyne", nor is the river known by that name until the Saxon period: Tynemouth is recorded in Anglo-Saxon as Tinanmuðe (probably dative case). There is a theory that Tīn was a word that meant "river" in the local Celtic language or in a language spoken in England before the Celts came: compare Tardebigge. There is also a river Tyne that rises in Midlothian in Scotland and flows through East Lothian into the North Sea. The River Vedra on the Roman map of Britain may be the Tyne, or may be the River Wear. The late Thomas John Taylor supposed that the main course of the river anciently flowed through what is now Team Valley, its outlet into the tidal river being by a waterfall at Bill Point. His theory is not far from the truth, as there is evidence that prior to the last Ice Age, the River Wear did once follow the current route of the lower River Team, merging with the Tyne at Dunston. Ice diverted the course of the Wear to its current location, flowing east the course of the Tyne) and joining the North Sea at Sunderland. Вот такой наборчик. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Tyne,_England
Река Ди вероятно, некогда была Доном: The River Dee (Scottish Gaelic: Uisge Dh is a river in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It rises in the Cairngorms and flows through Strathdee (Deeside) to reach the North Sea at Aberdeen. The name is attested as early as the second century AD in the work of the Alexandrian geographer Claudius Ptolemy, as Δηοῦα (=Deva), meaning 'Goddess', indicating a divine status for the river in the beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of the area. The several other rivers of the same name in Great Britain have the same origin. The Dee's near neighbour to the north, the river Don also means 'goddess'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Dee,_Aberdeenshire
Вероятные кандидаты - water of Tanar, Tone Burn, Doe, Tain, Dundonnell, Duneaton, Doon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Scotland
В Англии - Duddone, Doe, Dee, Dunsop, Dane, Dean, Leadon, Dene, Tanat, Tone, Donniford Stream, Heddon, Duntz (Донец?), Ludden, Lodden, Dun (2), Loddon, Tean, Don (2), Little Don, Danby, Tyne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_England
Уэльс - Dee, Ddu (регион Snowdonia), Arddu, Llynedno, Denys, Tanat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Wales
Ирландия - Dun, Doonbeg. И это только те реки, которые сохранили свое название. А сколько переименовано? Названий явно славянского происхождения полно. Но это другой разговор.
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