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tommytalldog
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Date Posted：23/11/2018 12:40:30Copy HTML Originally being colonies of GB it is only natural that we would have a lot of states named after British royalty & nobility. Virginia was named after Queen Elizabeth I & known as the Virgin Queen. Georgia was named in honor of King George II, & the Carolinas were given to King Charles II, see Charleston. In my own state of N.Y. honored The Duke of York & Albany (later King James II) by naming the state & several cities & counties after him. Live respected, die regretted
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majorshrapnel
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Re：U.S. STATE NAMES Date Posted：23/11/2018 12:52:02Copy HTML There's 10,000 places named after places and people of Britain. Pittsburg and Pennsylvania spring immediately to mind. There's even a city called England in Arkansa.
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majorshrapnel
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Re：U.S. STATE NAMES Date Posted：23/11/2018 12:59:18Copy HTML I've just found a page on wikipedia which names all of the towns and cities in America named after places in Britain and there's so many of them it is too large to post on here.
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MarkUK
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Re：U.S. STATE NAMES Date Posted：23/11/2018 01:59:29Copy HTML There seems to be three types of place names in North America - those named after people/places in Europe; those named after the local Indian natives (Massachusetts etc) and those with an industrial background (Steel City etc).
I especially deplore the practice of ending a place name with the word ville (Jacksonville etc) very unoriginal.
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PBA-3rd-1949
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Re：U.S. STATE NAMES Date Posted：25/11/2018 12:58:52Copy HTML Maybe because at the time thoses places were only considered villages and not big enough to be a town or city when named. Doesn't the word Ville come from the French Language so maybe that is the reason. |
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MarkUK
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Re：U.S. STATE NAMES Date Posted：25/11/2018 08:45:04Copy HTML Yes, it appears in many French place names, even a few in GB, Coalville for instance.
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majorshrapnel
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Re：U.S. STATE NAMES Date Posted：25/11/2018 10:16:09Copy HTML I was once told that place names that ended with wich, like Northwich, Middlewich are of French origin and place names ending in by, Derby Wetherby, are Viking.
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PBA-3rd-1949
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Re：U.S. STATE NAMES Date Posted：26/11/2018 12:58:42Copy HTML At least most of them can be pronounced Major. Try some of the Indian and Eskimoo names here. I would hate to have to do a cross word puzzle using them. Newfoundland probably holds the record for odd place names. These names were used and in place before they become part of Canada and come from the English or Irish that settled there. Tickle was a thin inlet of water and Dildoe was the part of a row boat known as a thole pin. Black Tickle Dildo |
