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On my mind today: Place Names

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:

Arizona
[name_u]Indiana[/name_u]
[name_u]Nevada[/name_u]
[name_f]Alaska[/name_f]
[name_u]Holland[/name_u]
[name_f]Seville[/name_f]/Sevilla
[name_f]Ireland[/name_f]
[name_f]Olympia[/name_f]
[name_u]Phoenix[/name_u]
[name_f]Nola[/name_f]

What are your favorite place names?

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Thessaly, [name_f]Adelaide[/name_f], [name_f]Florence[/name_f] and Carisbrooke

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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]!!

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Adelaide
[name_f]Vienna[/name_f]
[name_f]Verona[/name_f]
[name_f]Alaska[/name_f]
[name_u]Devon[/name_u] (not far from where I live in the UK)

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Oh and [name_u]Paris[/name_u]! I like [name_u]Paris[/name_u] on a boy though.

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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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Adelaide, [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f], and [name_f]Florence[/name_f]!

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Adelaide, [name_f]Florence[/name_f], [name_f]Vienna[/name_f], [name_m]Orlando[/name_m], [name_u]Endellion[/name_u], [name_f]Mabyn[/name_f], [name_m]Austell[/name_m] :heart:

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[name_f]Thessaly[/name_f]
[name_f]Delphi[/name_f]
[name_f]Olympia[/name_f]
[name_f]Vienna[/name_f]
[name_f]Florence[/name_f]
[name_u]Endellion[/name_u]
[name_f]Alexandria[/name_f]
[name_f]Abyssinia[/name_f]

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Savannah & [name_f]Alaska[/name_f]! :slight_smile:

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Vienna, [name_f]Florence[/name_f] and [name_f]Adelaide[/name_f]

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One of my favorite names is [name_f]Janina[/name_f], which is another name for Ioannina in Greece!

I also like [name_m]Oslo[/name_m], [name_f]Adelaide[/name_f], [name_f]Ainhoa[/name_f] and [name_f]Lourdes[/name_f].

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Charlotte, [name_u]Abilene[/name_u], [name_f]Acadia[/name_f], [name_f]Avalon[/name_f], [name_u]Cairo[/name_u], and [name_u]Holland[/name_u]!

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I love place names :earth_asia: !
[name_f]My[/name_f] favourites:
[name_f]Adelaide[/name_f]
[name_f]Victoria[/name_f]
[name_u]Cairo[/name_u]
[name_u]Sydney[/name_u]
[name_m]Santiago[/name_m]
[name_u]Brooklyn[/name_u]
[name_u]Brighton[/name_u]
[name_u]London[/name_u]
[name_u]Paris[/name_u]
[name_f]Florence[/name_f]
[name_u]Eden[/name_u]
[name_f]Capri[/name_f]
[name_m]Caspian[/name_m]
[name_f]Savannah[/name_f]
[name_u]Nevada[/name_u]

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Venice and [name_f]Alexandria[/name_f] are some of my favourites! [name_f]Seville[/name_f]’s a gp for me.

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Thessaly
[name_u]Clare[/name_u]
[name_u]Shannon[/name_u]
[name_m]Aran[/name_m]
[name_f]Georgia[/name_f]
[name_f]Alexandria[/name_f]
[name_f]Vienna[/name_f]
[name_f]Odessa[/name_f]
[name_u]Rome[/name_u]
[name_u]Denali[/name_u]
McKinley
[name_m]Rainier[/name_m]
[name_m]Reno[/name_m]
[name_f]Carolina[/name_f]
[name_f]Columbia[/name_f]
[name_f]Andorra[/name_f]
[name_f]Majorca[/name_f]

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Charlotte, [name_f]Florence[/name_f], [name_f]Alexandria[/name_f], [name_f]Adelaide[/name_f], [name_f]Lorraine[/name_f], and guilty pleasure [name_f]Vienna[/name_f]!

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Macau

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Antarctica
[name_f]Delphi[/name_f]
[name_f]Elbe[/name_f]
Europe
[name_f]Thessaly[/name_f]

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My all-time favourite place name is Arkansas. I love if for either gender. (Side note, but I actually wrote a short-story [name_m]Tarzan[/name_m] retelling when I was a kid where the “[name_f]Jane[/name_f]” character was named Arkansas and ever since then I have been lowkey obsessed with it). It has and probably will always remain a GP though.

I also love [name_u]Paris[/name_u] for a boy, but more because of Greek Mythology than the actual city itself.

Others I really enjoy (and I do like all of the following for either gender):
[name_u]Denver[/name_u]
[name_f]Abyssinia[/name_f]
[name_f]Galilee[/name_f]
Nazereth
[name_f]Bethlehem[/name_f]
[name_u]Jericho[/name_u]
[name_m]Canaan[/name_m]
[name_u]Israel[/name_u]
[name_u]Zion[/name_u]
[name_u]Abilene[/name_u]
[name_f]Alaska[/name_f]
[name_m]Orlando[/name_m]
[name_f]Geneva[/name_f]

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