Re: CHAT: geographical nomenclature [was Re: Language of Tetril]

Padraic Brown scripsit:

>  Simply, there are some cities that need no qualifiers. Paris,
> London, Athens, Atlanta, Chicago, Holywood, Washington.
Dot vot you tink.  My wife used to be a telephone operator in Florida
back before direct intercity dialing, and routinely connected calls to
Hollywood, Florida (it was founded in hopes -- never fulfilled -- that
it would become a movie-making center).  When she moved to Denver
(that would be Denver, Colorado), she handled a caller asking for
"Hollywood such-and-such a number" by passing him to a remote operator
in -- you guessed it -- Hollywood, Florida, out of habit.
Much embarrassment even 30 years later.

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John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
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     --sign in Paris hotel      |            --Miles Vorkosigan

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