- QFTCIMM16 Game 3, Rounds 4,6: rivers, classics of the century - 6 Updates
- Intention to Post: Rotating Quiz #241 - 4 Updates
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Dec 23 08:59PM +0100 > Warning: the three cities won't necessarily be the largest or most > famous ones along that river. > 1. Basel, Strasbourg, Bonn. Rhen > 2. Waterloo, Cambridge, Paris. Hm, that can't be Europan originals, but be copies somewhere. I know that there is a Waterloo in Ontario, a Cambridge in Massachuttes and a Paris in Texas, but it can at most be one of them. St Lawrence? > 3. Bismarck, Omaha, Kansas City. Missouri > 4. Regensburg, Bratislava, Belgrade. Donau > 5. Geneva, Lyon, Arles. Rhône > 6. Prince George, Chilliwack, Maple Ridge. Rio de la Plata. :-) > 7. Minneapolis, St. Louis, Memphis. Mississippi > 8. Turin, Piacenza, Cremona. Po > 9. Dresden, Wittenberg, Hamburg. Elbe > 10. Revelstoke, Portland, Astoria. Columbia > 3. Ranked #2. Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung play neighbors drawing > closer, but the real stars are the leading lady's cheongsam > dresses. Wong Kar-Wai directed this 2000 release. I believe that I've see this one! But remembering the title? Nope. In any case, I've only see the English title of this Taiwanese film. > 9. Ranked #10. The Coen brothers picked up the 2007 Best Picture > Oscar for this modern-day western starring Josh Brolin as > Llewelyn Moss and Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh. No Country for Old Men -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Dec 23 09:03PM +0100 >> dresses. Wong Kar-Wai directed this 2000 release. > I believe that I've see this one! But remembering the title? Nope. > In any case, I've only see the English title of this Taiwanese film. Having seen the answer given, I get a recollection of that the same title was used in Sweden too. (These days, foreign films more often have an English title here, no matter where they come from, it seems.) -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Dec 23 01:46PM -0800 Erland Sommarskog wrote: > Hm, that can't be Europan originals, but be copies somewhere. I know > that there is a Waterloo in Ontario, a Cambridge in Massachuttes and > a Paris in Texas, but it can at most be one of them. Yes, but there's lots of little towns named for European cities, including many of each of these three names. I've been looking into foreign cities with American namesakes recently. I've counted well over 200 different names and am not done yet. One interesting fact is that the American names often retain older spellings. Here's a list where the usual current English name of a foreign city does not match the spelling of places named after that city. Names where the only difference is diacritics were not included. Angora MN -- Ankara, Turkey Bagdad AZ -- Baghdad, Iraq Barnstable MA -- Barnstaple, Devon, England Breslau TX -- Wroclaw, Poland Brooklyn NY -- Breukelen, Netherlands (Breukelen has merged with a couple neighbors, so it's no longer a separate municipality, but that matches Brooklyn) Brunswick IN -- Braunschweig, Germany Burlington MA -- Bridlington, East Yorkshire, England Cabool MO -- Kabul, Afghanistan Calcutta OH -- Kolkata, India Canton OH -- Guangzhou, China Carthagena OH -- Cartagena, Spain Cordova AL -- Córdoba, Mexico Cordova NE -- Córdoba, Spain Danzig ND -- Gdansk, Poland Elsinore UT -- Helsingør, Denmark (Shakespearean influence of course) Framingham MA -- Framlingham, Suffolk, England Frankfort IL -- Frankfurt, Germany Hartford CT -- Hertford, Hertfordshire, England Leipsic OH -- Leipzig, Germany Lubec ME -- Lübeck, Germany Manheim PA -- Mannheim, Germany Monterey MI -- Monterrey, Mexico (the Monterey in CA was not named after the one in Mexico) Montpelier VT -- Montpellier, France Pekin IL -- Beijing, China Sebastopol CA -- Sevastopol, Ukraine Strasburg PA -- Strasbourg, France Tokio TX -- Tokyo, Japan Upsala MN -- Uppsala, Sweden Vera Cruz IN -- Veracruz, Mexico I also skipped any names with -burg/-burgh differences, since those were usually imposed by fiat of the US Board on Geographic Names. I didn't include Lyon(s) because I'm not sure if English has dropped the S (it's in the process, I think). Perhaps the same with Marseille(s), only not so far along. Another I skipped was Bogata TX, since that was an outright misspelling of Bogota. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 23 11:57PM -0600 Erland Sommarskog (copyedited): > > somewhere. I know that there is a Waterloo in Ontario, a Cambridge > > in Massachusetts and a Paris in Texas, but it can at most be one > > of them. Indeed. As you might have guessed, the question was actually about the ones in Ontario. Dan Tilque: > including many of each of these three names. I've been looking into > foreign cities with American namesakes recently. I've counted well over > 200 different names and am not done yet. How many namesakes have you found in total? I think one of the interesting cases is where a sizable city over here is named for a much less populous place in Britain or elsewhere. Boston, Portland, and the other Portland come to mind immediately. -- Mark Brader | "The only thing required for the triumph of darkness Toronto | is for good men not to call Hydro." msb@vex.net | --Michael Wares My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Dec 24 12:06AM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: >> foreign cities with American namesakes recently. I've counted well over >> 200 different names and am not done yet. > How many namesakes have you found in total? Haven't counted those, just the number of different cities that have American namesakes. > I think one of the interesting cases is where a sizable city over here > is named for a much less populous place in Britain or elsewhere. Boston, > Portland, and the other Portland come to mind immediately. Yes, I have noted some like that and those are two. (Note that the Portland in England is not a town, but rather a peninsula that they call an island. It's the Portland in Oregon that's much larger than the one in Maine.) Others (larger one first): Abilene TX/KS Brampton ON/Cumbria, England Brooklyn/Breukelen Calgary AB/Scotland Danbury CT/Essex, England Edmonton AB/Greater London, England Lexington KY/MA Perth, Western Australia/Scotland (metro area only; the city of Perth is actually smaller) Richmond VA/Lincolnshire, England Springfield MA/Essex, England Stamford CT/Greater London, England Valparaiso, Chile/Valparaiso de Arriba, Spain You may want to add New York/York, although New York was actually named after a person. Lexington MA is possibly named for a Laxton in England with a population less than 500, so you might consider it a triple. And for your next question (I can anticipate these things sometimes), the one with the greatest ratio of populations is probably Calgary. Don't know this for sure, because the one in Scotland is essentially a rural area and Wikipedia doesn't give a population for it. -- Dan Tilque |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Dec 24 11:37AM +0100 > the one with the greatest ratio of populations is probably Calgary. > Don't know this for sure, because the one in Scotland is essentially a > rural area and Wikipedia doesn't give a population for it. We should not forget Lima! Lima in Sweden has 398 inhabitants according to Wikipedia. (Or well, one of them has. For the other, the most recent information given is that there were 38 farms at the end of the 19th century.) Of course, most likely the coincidence in name with the Peruvian capital is incidental. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Dec 23 10:23PM There being little to no argument raised to Mark's earlier post, I intend to take the role of setter of RQ241, to be posted sometime between Xmas and New Year. Enjoy Festivus, Happy Holidays Be excellent to each other Gareth |
| swp <Stephen.W.Perry@gmail.com>: Dec 23 06:03PM -0800 On Friday, December 23, 2016 at 5:23:55 PM UTC-5, Gareth Owen wrote: > Enjoy Festivus, Happy Holidays > Be excellent to each other > Gareth party on Gareth! swp |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Dec 23 11:00PM -0600 Gareth Owen: > I intend to take the role of setter of RQ241, to be posted sometime > between Xmas and New Year. Thanks. > Enjoy Festivus, Happy Holidays > Be excellent to each other Good idea -- thanks! -- Mark Brader "Although I have not seen any mention of SoftQuad Toronto or HoTMetaL in the magazine, it is certainly msb@vex.net worth while reading." -- Selwyn Wener |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Dec 24 11:37AM +0100 > There being little to no argument raised to Mark's earlier post, I > intend to take the role of setter of RQ241, to be posted sometime > between Xmas and New Year. Go for it! -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
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