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

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:41:31 -0000 Fabian <fabian@...>
writes:
> From: "Padraic Brown" <agricola@...>
> > is in. Simply, there are some cities that need no qualifiers.
> Paris,
> > London, Athens, Atlanta, Chicago, Holywood, Washington.
> This reminds me of a news article a few months back. A guy in
> Boston
> founded a society for the abolition of the aberrant apostrophe
> (saaa, as
> they say in Japan). An American newsfeed picked up this article, and
> it
> got syndicated in numerous newspapers throughout the USA.
> Unfortunately,
> they all assumed it was Boston, USA, when really it was Boston,
> Lincolnshire. _The_ Boston, as they would say in Lincolnshire.
> --
> Fabian
-

This just reminded me... i have a friend in college who's from the
suburban town of Jericho, in Long Island, New York.  When he first came
to college (about 200 miles upstate of the NYC metro area), one of his
roommates remarked, upon hearing that he's from Jericho, something like
"wow, you don't have an accent from being from Israel!"


-Stephen (Steg)
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