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Page 3 of 3 < 1 2 3 Topic Options #191797 - 07/04/10 11:12 AM Re: City and Country names ending with "s" [Re: BranShea] LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 5287 Loc: Land of the Flat Water And with the problems in Belgium, politically, the terms Holland and Flanders are again becoming relevant. _________________________ ----please, draw me a sheep---- Top #191830 - 07/06/10 08:13 AM Re: City and Country names ending with "s" [Re: LukeJavan8] Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13654 I think a lot of the USn place names ending in Cs were originally C's possessives, but the apostrophe was stricken by the US Postal Service. Note: The Capital C indicates any consonant. Top Page 3 of 3 < 1 2 3 Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8424 Members 16 Forums 13686 Topics 209773 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members teepee, smoothcriminal86, janbra, junebug, Stephen A 8423 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 36 Guests and 1 Spider online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 88 jenny jenny 62 wofahulicodoc 54 endymion6 47 Rhubarb Commando 35 BranShea 34 Buffalo Shrdlu 16 zmjezhd 13 Jackie 12 Faldage 12 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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