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• It's... (Score:2)

  by barbie (2653)

  Boston.

  As to why you remember them I have no idea. A friend of mine was an au-pair there years ago, and she found it amusing that a many of the streets were named after British towns and cities :)
  • Re:It's... (Score:1)

    by jdporter (36)

    Well, that's an au pair for ya. Anybody with half a brain wouldn't find it amusing. Hell, Boston itself was named after a British town. It is "New England", after all. Every geographic feature there is named after a place in England, or else it has an Indian name. (To overgeneralize a little...)
    
    O.k., just for fun, here are the names of the 50 states, categorized by the origin of the name.
    
    Indian names (mostly names of tribes in the area):
    Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois,
    • Re:It's... (Score:1)

      by jdporter (36) on 2004.01.21 13:04 (#27595) Homepage Journal

      Ooh, I made one mistake when I typed this up. (I had thought of it earlier, but forgot.) Namely:
      
      Louisiana is named for a French person, not an English person.
      

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