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Re: Whynot, North Carolina

From "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net>
Newsgroups alt.usage.english, misc.writing, soc.culture.usa, alt.politics, talk.politics.misc
References <20170606Qu4BeSo84f@QuBJ> <oh8a400341@news3.newsguy.com>
Subject Re: Whynot, North Carolina
Date 2017-06-07 12:15 -0500
Message-ID <vNadna6p15BTqaXEnZ2dnUU7-RfNnZ2d@supernews.com> (permalink)

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"RH Draney"  wrote in message news:oh8a400341@news3.newsguy.com...
>
> 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

How about Truth or Consequences, New Mexico? 

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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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