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#101317 04/24/03 02:27 AM
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but there are a few nyms you might like to add to your trove of nyms.

Along with wordwindonym? use your imagination



#101318 04/26/03 09:51 PM
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Was not the US State of Georgia named after the King of England of similar name? Does this make a woman named Georgia after the State of George named after King George, a person whose name is a nym-nom?



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Intriguing, Father Steve. And if Georgia, the state, is named for King George, then how did Georgia acquire it's feminine connotation?


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>Georgia named after a King

Isn't that also true of the Carolinas?


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Just guessing here, but terra (Latin for land) is feminine, so if Georgia and Carolina were meant to be adjectives describing the land, then by the rules of Latin they would have to be in the feminine form as well.

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Then there's Aga-nym-nom...


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Isn't that also true of the Carolinas?
sjm, I am in awe of you. Yes indeed:
The territory was called Carolina in honor of Charles the First ("Carolus" is the Latin form of "Charles").

http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/history/history.htm


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Virgina is named for Elizabeth -- the virgin queen..




#101325 04/27/03 03:22 AM
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Things pertaining to the reign of Charles I (1625-49) and Charles II (1660-85) of England are referred to as "Caroline." For example, the proponents of the High Church (Anglo-Catholic) strain of Anglicanism were referred to as "the Caroline Divines." It is precisely true that the Carolinas derived their names from this adjectival reference to the English monarchs.



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"The last of the thirteen original British colonies was named after England's King George II in 1733. The terms of the charter granted by the king specified that the colony to be founded by James Oglethorpe be named after the king and so it was."

Source: Shearer, Benjamin F. and Barbara S. State Names, Seals, Flags and Symbols Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut - 1994



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