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Topic | This thing in America, why does it have so many towns named after real cities? |
The Top Crusader 05/30/17 1:42:10 PM #20: | saspa posted... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Texas My wife was born in Lebanon, Indiana. Here in Ohio I live in Lima, and close by we have Cairo and Russia... They are all pronounced differently than the city or country they are named after, though... Lima with an "I" like "lime," Cairo like Care-oh and oddly Russia is Rooshy. Never understood that last one, they others at least make sense based on spelling. --- -- - ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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