Re: CHAT: Paris, Texas (was: Language of Tetril)
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 13, 2001, 9:46 |
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Barry Garcia wrote:
> Anton writes:
>
> >On another hand, I doubt that a new State would ever be
> >named for an old place without a qualifier like `New'.
> >The DC statehood faction plans to call it New Columbia, i hear.
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> Take for instance "New Mexico"
>
I agree. British Columbia is called "British" because Queen Victoria liked
the name "Columbia", but it was already taken, so she added "British" in
front of it, to distinguish it from Spanish Columbia.
---ferko
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