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Uptown_NOLA t1_ir9u9u6 wrote

Reply to comment by redneckhotmess in Where did the English language REALLY come from? by MagicRaptor

I've always had a theory that the settlers. while very hard working, kind of ran out of names by the time they got to the Mississippi river and just started repeating everything.

In Texas they have Palestine, which is named after Palestine, Illinois, not the original place. lol

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Wintersbone7 t1_irgvgmh wrote

After the 13 original colonies, th new states were named either by the Spanish or after local indigenous populations who then quickly displaced

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Uptown_NOLA t1_iri99rm wrote

I was speaking more to names of municipalities which a lot of seem to simply get repeated in state after state.

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