Last week, I saw two t-shirts that were cute and mostly identical except one had “[name_u]California[/name_u]” across the front and the other had “[name_u]New[/name_u] [name_m]York[/name_m] City”. There were plenty of the [name_u]California[/name_u] shirt in my size and only a couple of the NYC (I found one), but I wasn’t going to get the [name_u]California[/name_u] shirt because I’ve never been to [name_u]California[/name_u] and I thought it would be weird. Thankfully, I never claimed to make sense because I don’t feel this way about names!
I love place names and it doesn’t bother me if I’ve never been there before. [name_m]Just[/name_m] means I get to add a place to my list! Here are some of my favorites:
I’m going to exclude names like [name_f]Adelaide[/name_f], which I love but are (to me) names first and places second.
[name_f]Alaska[/name_f]
[name_f]Thessaly[/name_f]
[name_u]Juneau[/name_u]
[name_u]Holland[/name_u]
[name_m]Oslo[/name_m]
[name_m]Halden[/name_m]
Santorini
[name_u]Aberdeen[/name_u]
Arnhem
[name_f]Astoria[/name_f]
[name_f]Elsinore[/name_f]!!
I love [name_f]Odessa[/name_f], [name_f]Adelaide[/name_f], and [name_m]Oslo[/name_m]! I don’t know if I would use a place name I hadn’t been to though.
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