I’m sorry but you americans are so uncreative for town names. Couldn’t you have just kept whatever the natives called that land, because the american names are so boring.
NJ has a lot: Lopatacong, Paramus, Manahawkin, Absecon, Piscataway, Manalapan, Cinnaminson, Hackensack, Parsippany, Teaneck, Manasquan, Raritan - just to name a few!
Come on over to Washington where we have places like Seattle, Tacoma, Puyallup, Snohomish, Skykomish, Sammamish, Snoqualmie, and Issaquah, just to name a few.
We just have a looot of towns, so a bunch get boring names.
Indigenous names are heavily used. Half the states have Native American derived names, a much larger proportion than I thought. Pre-European population density was much lower, though so there were a lot fewer settlements to name.
I’m not American. But also, most place names are like this, they’ve just been through enough years of language changes and conquests for the obviousness to be obscured. Beijing and Tokyo are “northern capital” and “eastern capital” respectively, for example. Hawai’i is either named after the guy that discovered the big island or just means “homeland”. “Denali” means “tall”
I’m sorry but you americans are so uncreative for town names. Couldn’t you have just kept whatever the natives called that land, because the american names are so boring.
NJ has a lot: Lopatacong, Paramus, Manahawkin, Absecon, Piscataway, Manalapan, Cinnaminson, Hackensack, Parsippany, Teaneck, Manasquan, Raritan - just to name a few!
Come on over to Washington where we have places like Seattle, Tacoma, Puyallup, Snohomish, Skykomish, Sammamish, Snoqualmie, and Issaquah, just to name a few.
We just have a looot of towns, so a bunch get boring names.
Indigenous names are heavily used. Half the states have Native American derived names, a much larger proportion than I thought. Pre-European population density was much lower, though so there were a lot fewer settlements to name.
I’m not American. But also, most place names are like this, they’ve just been through enough years of language changes and conquests for the obviousness to be obscured. Beijing and Tokyo are “northern capital” and “eastern capital” respectively, for example. Hawai’i is either named after the guy that discovered the big island or just means “homeland”. “Denali” means “tall”