Names of cities/towns

[Ger Hayden]

... not fogetting the sychophantic obsession with demonstrating loyalty to the Brittish crown e.g. Londonderry.

Ger

[fjdiewornncalwe]

Perhaps it is the fragile ego that causes Texans to carry such big guns around. John, would you know anything about this?

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[fjdiewornncalwe]

Right next to Dullingham, I see. There must be great nightlife there.

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[fjdiewornncalwe]

I preferred Frankenberry as a child. (Higher sugar content.)

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[fjdiewornncalwe]

Yup... Had to check... It's called the "looney" here...

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[Lost User]

I started, for the lack of anything better to do, typing words into Google Maps and seeing if I got any hits. When I tried 'stink' it took my to Cambridge and presented a list of 7 hotels with stink in the review.

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[Pete OHanlon]

Surely Jorvik.

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[Vikram A Punathambekar]

d@nish wrote:

I don't know if any of the Indian city shares name with any other one outside Indian sub-continent.

Oregon and Tamil Nadu both have a Madras and a Salem.

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[Graham Shanks]

Dalek Dave wrote:

Georgia after King George, Virginia after Elizabeth the First, the Carolinas after King Charles etc.

Texas after the band[^]

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[Lost User]

Here in Illinois (USA) we have a Paris, a Frankfort and a Cairo. :)

[Jalapeno Bob]

You forgot Salem, Massachusetts, home of the Salem Witch Trials....

[Jalapeno Bob]

Yah, right. .... Texas comes from Tejas, a Mexican name borrowed in part from a Native American word for the people of the area. We Texans are a proud bunch, so proud that we post road signs to warn people, saying: Don't Mess With Texas![^]

[Jalapeno Bob]

Believe me, there is nothing fragile about Texans, especially their egos! For bragging rights, Texas is the birthplace of four US Presidents (Dwight David Eisenhower, Lyndon Baines Johnson, George Herbert Walker Bush and George W Bush! Texas is the largest state of the contiguous 48 (only Alaska is bigger). Texas fought Mexico for its freedom and became a nation, then it gave up nationhood to became a state. We are so proud of our state that many of us hang the state flag as a living-room wall decoration.

[Roger Wright]

The original settlers who colonized the Americas were a stodgy, dim-witted lot, possessed of little, if any, imagination. When they had a few towns built and realized that it would be simpler to tell them apart if they gave them names, they tried and tried to think of something clever. In short order they gave up, having determined that all the good names had already been used by their ancestors, who were clearly a much bright breed. With a collective sigh of relief at having been unburdened of an onerous task, the tacked a 'New' in front of all the old town names and reused them. When those ran out, they asked the Indians for ideas, which explains most of the names in the state of Washington.

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