Names of cities/towns

Rob Graham

British settlers recycled city names they were familiar with.

Lost User

You can find European city and town names in all the places that Europeans colonized but mostly new world (lands found through exploration) stuck to the names. But some like New Zealand makes it a point to be known by its indigenous name as well.

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Joe Simes

You should try living in New England like I do and have your English friend come over for a holiday. "Chelmsford is no where near Andover! Why would they do that?" And he kept calling Chelmsford Chelmsdorf!! Funny people the English! :-D My guess is that when you emigrate to a new country you want to bring a bit of the homeland with you. And if they let you name the bloody place you move too then I guess you name it after where you came from!!

Mark_Wallace

Gizz wrote:

Brits

Who are they? Some kind of club? ... Oh! You mean Brit_ons!_ Funny how dropping a syllable from words appears to be acceptable, in some circles -- or should I say: Fun dropp syllab app accepta, circ?

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Mark_Wallace

Henry Minute wrote:

I used to manage the McDonald's in East Ham.

What, and then you hit 20, and were fired because you were too old?

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Henry Minute

I didn't start my illustrious career with McD's til looooong past my 30s.

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chethu665

A lot of them are there. York, UK York, USA(not New york). Lancaster UK, Lancaster USA. but "Intercourse" is the amish village name near lancaster. :) Is there any other town/village named like this?

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dan sh

chethu665 wrote:

Is there any other town/village named like this?

There is a village in Tarsdorf, Austria (NSFW).

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RaviBee

d@nish wrote:

There may be more that I am unaware of.

Indeed! I'm sure you've heard of Delhi, India. But did you know there's also a Delhi in California, Iowa, Louisiana, New York and Canada? And a Madras in Iowa? And a Bombay in New York? :) /ravi

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Slacker007

Funny city names around the world[^] I'm glad I don't live in glasscock, tx :wtf:

Keith Barrow

There are dozens of Newcastles all over the world, normally where there are mines (especially coal). This is because the main industry around Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (my home-town) was coal, and people went all over as they had mining expertise. As for America/Canada (the same must occur in NZ/OZ) cities there were, as others have said, founded mostly by British people when they were colonies in the British Empire. The situation is different in India, because there were large towns and cities prior to the arrival of the British, hence few (if any) British names. It wasn't just the British who did this: there was a Berlin (it renamed during the war) in the US, settled by Germans , and New York was originally New Amsterdam (settled by the Dutch).

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Ravi Sant

Never been to east ham (now on visit-list), but yes southall is good. Even wembley central to alperton is good.

Lost User

New York should give you a hint.

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New York was first called New Amsterdam.

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dan sh

Now that's a news for me. Thanks.

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Lost User

Because the British went out and conquered the world, and to celebrate they gave the new towns in foreign parts the same name as their home town in Britain. I still don't understand why there is no Glasgow in India though. ;)

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fjdiewornncalwe

But only in Canada can you have two teams in the same ***cough*** professional ***cough*** league have the same nickname. We used to have (American)football teams in Saskatechewan and Ottawa both named the Roughriders. The kicker is that the league only had 9 teams at the time.

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Henry Minute

They missed, amongst many others, one of my faves smb[^]

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