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

--- "Thomas R. Wier" froge sionk:
> Because wherever Anglophone settlers moved in the US, and
> in most of the rest of the former British Empire, they very
> often gave the name of their settlement the same name as one
> from their homecountry, or one they happened to admire. In Texas,
> alone, for example, there is a Paris, an Athens, a Moscow, a
> Vienna, a Dublin, a Stockholm, a Florence, a Lisbon, a Nottingham,
> a Manchester, a Stratford, an Aberdeen, a Newcastle, and an Oxford.
> Sometimes these cities become more prosperous than their etymons;
> Philadelphia, PA, and Memphis, TN, are certainly greater than
> the Egyptian cities after which they're named. Perhaps most
> famously
> in American geographical nomenclature, the current town of
> Bismarck, South Dakota, changed its name to its current status
> back in the 19th century in the hopes that the Iron Chancellor,
> who was then still in power, would encourage German investment
> there.  (Apparently, name changes have been very, very frequent
> in Texas, and are sometimes entirely frivolous.  My favorite
> story is that of Bug Tussle, Texas:
>
there used to be a Dobrowolski, Texas... :)

...nicole, who had her last polish class today and is not sure
whether to be sad or perform a dance of joy...

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