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Hey you, where do you live?
est:
One time when I went to the US I went to Schenectady. Come on.
Jimmy the Squid:
We are pretty bad at naming things. On the drive down to Melbourne we crossed a lot of creeks all of which had names. Most of them were "8 Mile Creek", "One Mile Creek", Four Mile Creek etc...
GET IT TOGETHER PEOPLE!
valley_parade:
New Jersey also has a Perth Amboy, Dovey.
Ben, I'm about an hour away from Schenectady. A lot of Upstate New York has towns that came out of Dutch ancestry. See also: Watervliet, Ganesvoort, Fishkill.
David_Dovey:
That was the one I was referring to, it just made it easier to have them all as Perths. I think .
EDIT: All the Perths
Inlander:
--- Quote from: Jimmy the Squid on 04 Nov 2010, 16:52 ---We are pretty bad at naming things. On the drive down to Melbourne we crossed a lot of creeks all of which had names. Most of them were "8 Mile Creek", "One Mile Creek", Four Mile Creek etc...
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I remember when I caught a train in Russia it passed through a whole lot of places which basically just seemed to be stops named after their distance in kilometres from St. Petersburg.
Earlier on that same trip I had the pleasure of travelling on a train through Middelfart, Denmark. ("Fart" means "passage" in Nordic languages - well Danish and Swedish anyway, in my experience, so I'd assume they've got the same word or a similar word in Norwegian - and Middelfart is a town in central Denmark that's pretty much unavoidable if you're travelling along the east/west corridor in that country.)
I think my favourite place name, though, is Westward Ho!. Yes, the exclamation mark is part of the name. I like to think that if they were naming the place nowadays, it'd be called something like Let's Go West, Fuck Yeah!
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