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New York State place names.

I am a wanker who creamed themself at “Rutherford Road” and can sympathise with naming new towns after classical locations, as confusing and disappointing as it is to hear Americans talk about them and realise they’re just on about someplace on the East Coast… but Troy?! my god what the fuck did you have against that place?

I don’t even resent our English places names too much, I bet their Newcastle and Ipswich are shit too and we can bond, though obvious Scottish ones are better.

But my god if you’re going to go full wanker, thing about the associations. Did you want that town to suffer? Did they serve you bad food?

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Someone in charge of establishing the Military District, the part of upstate New York given to Revolutionary War veterans, liked classical Greece. That’s where Seneca and Attica and Ithaca and Utica come from.

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