Re: Whynot, North Carolina

From	GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com>
Newsgroups	alt.usage.english, soc.culture.indian, misc.writing, soc.culture.usa, alt.politics, talk.politics.misc
Subject	Re: Whynot, North Carolina
Date	2017-06-09 07:07 +0100
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On 08/06/2017 09:01, Peter Moylan wrote:
> On 07/06/17 17:31, RH Draney wrote:
>> On 6/6/2017 7:51 PM, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
>>> Whynot, North Carolina
>>>
>>> Excerpt:
>>>
>>> The community was originally spelled with two separate
>>> words, "Why Not".[7] The origin of town's name came from
>>> residents debating a title for their community. A man
>>> finally remarked "Why not name the town Why Not and let's
>>> go home?"
>>
>> Why, Arizona is a small community near Ajo...it gets its English name
>> from the three-way road intersection around which it formed (Arizona law
>> at the time it was found prohibited the simpler name of "Y"; the O'odham
>> name is "Ban Hi:nk", a native name that unashamedly uses the IPA "long
>> vowel" indicator in its orthography)....r
> 
> An AUE regular -- but I can't remember who it was -- used to cite
> Coalinga in California as a quirky name. Apparently it was originally
> called "Coaling A".
> 

There's a village in Devon called Westward Ho! (complete with 
exclamation mark). When I looked in Wikipedia to determine its
location I found that it's outdone by a place in Quebec called
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! (including *both* exclamation marks).
--
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

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Re: Whynot, North Carolina RH Draney <dadoctah@cox.net> - 2017-06-07 00:31 -0700
  Re: Whynot, North Carolina "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2017-06-07 12:15 -0500
    Re: Whynot, North Carolina "M.I.Wakefield" <none@present.com> - 2017-06-07 15:17 -0400
      Re: Whynot, North Carolina "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> - 2017-06-07 15:16 -0500
        Re: Whynot, North Carolina Mr. B1ack <nowhere@nada.net> - 2017-06-07 18:15 -0400
  Re: Whynot, North Carolina Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2017-06-08 18:01 +1000
    Re: Whynot, North Carolina GordonD <g.davie@btinternet.com> - 2017-06-09 07:07 +0100

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