Re: CHAT Bethesda et al. (was: Brithenig-heads)

Raymond Brown wrote:

> At 9:15 pm -0400 9/4/00, Padraic Brown wrote:
> >On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, And Rosta wrote:
> [....]
> >>BTW, what does _Bethesda_ mean? It keeps popping into my head when I see
> >>_Bethisad_.
> >
> >It's a town in Maryland. :)
>
> Probably - most toponyms found elsewhere in the world also seem to exist in
> the US  :)
Indeed -- there are supposed to be something like 31 cities named 'Berlin'
in the US;  Texas has an Athens, a Paris, a Rome, and I think a Moscow, too.

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