I grew up in a village whose name roughly translates to "Bob's place by the stream."
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I lived for a bit in a place that meant "Big nose".
According to USPS, there are 32 towns in the US named Franklin. lol
There are 88 towns named "Washington".
USPS says Franklin tops the list at 32, but Washington is popular as well woth 24.
What's your source?
Worldatlas.com but I don't know how reputable they are.
Oh, i see that. Interesting.
Maybe differences in what's being considered as a town? Who knows.
USPS has a way of combining smaller towns and suburbs to the largest nearby city. In practice this is very useful. You know your friend is near Nashville, say, and the zip codes do the heavy lifting.
So I would posit that using USPS as a source in this case is not a great idea.
Lots of Bismark and Moscow about too.
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Alaskan settlers wanted to call their new town Ptarmigan cause there were plenty of those birds around.
But they didn't know how to spell it, so they called it Chicken.
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Not really true. (the Roman misunderstanding part)
To all the men obsessed with the Roman empire: you are to Republicans what the Greek culture is to Democrats. #generalization #butTrue