There's a Derry and Londonderry in New Hampshire right beside each other. Being from Northern Ireland, that is incredibly amusing to me.
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The Phoenicians founded a new city in North Africa and called it 'New City' (Qart Hadasht), we now call it Carthage. The Carthaginians founded a new city in Spain and called it 'New City' (Qart Hadasht). The Romans conquered both of these cities, and found that having cities with the same confusing so called the second one 'New New City' (Carthago Nova).
In Alaska there's a town called Chicken. They wanted to name it after the Ptarmigan that were abundant in the area, but couldn't agree on the correct spelling.
Ixonia, Wisconsin solved that problem by just drawing random letters from a hat until they came up with something pronounceable: Ixonia.
But I'm always amused by the street Oxford Place near my house. It's a street named after a university, named after a city, named after a shallow spot where cattle could cross the river.
In Iowa, we have a Madrid, but its pronounced like MADrid. And a town named Nevada, but pronounced NeVAYda.
There's a Brisbane in California, pronounced like "Briz-bain" (the Aussie pronunciation is more like "Briz-bn")
Cairo in Illinois, pronounced KAY-row.
Q: Where is Santa Fe? Glaswegian: The North Pole
Around Rochester NY theres a Chili but they pronounce it Chai-lie.
Aggravates the shit out of me. I was reading about some famous person, and it said he's from Bayonne. And I thought, no shit, he's from Jersey?
No, not that Bayonne, and not that Jersey either.
Jesus fuck why couldn't people have made up new names, or just used more of the native names that already existed?
I see Camden in the news, and go through many emotions figuring out which one!
Bayonne, SW France ?
Yes, or Bayonne, New Jersey, which is what I thought they meant
They just named it after the place they were from and put "new" in the front.
New Niu York
Those European names: the word "Hill" in 3 different languages mashed together
Most names are essentially just landmarks of some sort.
Hamburg is derived from Hammer Burg, simply meaning hammer castle.
Part of Hamburg is Altona, which is lower German for all too near, because it's really close to Hamburg.
East of Hamburg is Lübeck, which is means "settlement of the lub", whoever the lub were.
Even farther east is Warnemünde, which is located at the mouth (Mund) of the river Warnow.
Said river is getting pretty wide a bit upstream, which gave the city of Rostock its name ("where the river gets wider").
East of that: Stralsund. It's the sound (the water kind) of Strela.
And so on and so on.
most of the city names in Washington State are native in origin. Just an FYI
Place names in general in the Pacific Northwest. Alaska is from an Aleut phrase. Out of the 36 Oregon counties, 10 have roots in indigenous language or culture.
I feel like Puyallup had to have been named by a drunken southerner
You're telling me there is no Walla Walla, England?
Yep, just Americans look over to New Zeland nobody else for sure
Or Australia. If it isn't something from europe, or a indigenous name, it's something really imaginative, like Northern Territory, Western Australia, and South Australia
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