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Article #520Re: Small town names (was: yank jokes)
From: torrico
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 00:00
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In article <3248D747.4783@ibm.net>, Mike Dale <mdale@ibm.net> writes: > Looks like the U.S. wins in the funny small town names comp. The only > one I recall is "Witts End", somewhere in England, maybe near Warwick. > It might not even be a village, just a locality, but I remember the sign. > > Mike > > > P.S. Is there such a thing as a history of how all those odd place-names > in the U.S. came to be? My guess is that it is the volume of attitude that we Americans are famous/infamous for. Oops. That's not one of those pesky prepositions is it?
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