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Old Feb 7, 2014, 8:59 am
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The numbered towns in Pennsylvania always have struck me as strange.

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Old Feb 7, 2014, 9:20 am
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I find the mixing of Anglo-Saxon, Norman French and Latin elements in those hyphenated British place names fascinating: Weston-super-Mare, Chester-le-Street...
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Old Feb 7, 2014, 10:36 am
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Not a city but I have yet to see someone who ventures to name that sweet- Eyjafjallajökull - Iceland volcano.
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