Re: Language of Tetril

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:47:36PM +0000, Michael Poxon wrote:
> Your mention of "Venice, Italy" prompts me to ask a question I have been
> wondering about for a while. Does anyone know the origin of this practice
> (i.e., naming the Country as well as the City)?
Probably because Alva (for instance) means nothing to anyone but a small
group of Okies, but Alva, Oklahoma is enough for most people to roughly
place my home town. Since you have to state the city and state of most
cities in the US, it gets carried over to cities outside the US. The
fact that most Americans have little knowledge of world geography
probably doesn't help.

> I've never heard it used on
> this side of the pond (UK) but it seems to be standard in the US. "Paris,
> France" for instance, sounds highly weird to me - what other Paris is there?
There's a Paris, Texas (population 25 thousand), and 6 other smaller
cities named Paris in the US. There are eight cities named Berlin in the
US. There's several Romes, with the largest two (Georgia and New York)
having 30,000 and 44,000 inhabitants, respectively.

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