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paulb said: Thanks, Faldage. Perhaps Wagga Wagga is the town of "many runs", eh, Capk? 13 on the trot, now [non-cricketers, disregard]Sorry, Paul, don't actually follow you. Are you suggesting that the Waugh brothers are making the runs, getting the runs, or just having the trots? 
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Not too long ago I read a most interesting magazine article about a day in the life of a tiffin wallah in India. A tiffin wallah is someone who delivers tiffin to office workers. Where is Shanks when you need him?
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What a fascinating thread. I've learned so much here!! OK, besides the aforementioned Walla Walla, can anyone think of other reduplicative place names? I can think of three others.
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OK, besides the aforementioned Walla Walla, can anyone think of other reduplicative place names? I can think of three others.
In NZ, we have Matamata, Meremere, and Chch.
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Max, how do you pronounce Chch [interrobang]
Faldage, yep, Pago Pago's one of the ones I thought of. There's another in the South Pacific, and the third in Europe.
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AnnaS enquired Max, how do you pronounce Chch [interrobang]Sorry, Anna, that was a little in-joke for CapKiwi. Chch is the standard abbreviation for Christchurch, the South Island's largest city. 
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baden baden takes care of europe..
i half remember someplace in NJ-- and another in one of the midwest states..
I'll wake up tonight from a sound sleep and know them...
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Gotcha, Max. You had me thinking NZ was beset by an immigration wave of post-Bosnian War Serbs 
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>OK, besides the aforementioned Walla Walla, can anyone think of other reduplicative place names? I can think of three others.You're just not thinking hard enough then, Anna. Wagga Wagga (also already mentioned) would have to be the best known Australian town with such a name, but a quick scan of our postcode list reveals: Bli Bli, Boonoo Boonoo, Curl Curl, Doon Doon, Gol Gol, Ki Ki, Lal Lal, Nowa Nowa, Pindi Pindi, Pura Pura, Wool Wool and Woy Woy. Then there are placenames for other geographical features, such as Yarra Yarra and Mullum Mullum. I don't know the significance of repetition in the Aboriginal languages concerned - my completely uninformed guess would be a plural. Perhaps Nicholas Nicholas can help us out? I grew up in a house named Goonoo Goonoo after an outback farming property. Curiously my parents pronounced it (rightly or wrongly, I have no idea) as "Gunna G'noo". Which reminds me, I was told as a child that "Pago Pago" is pronounced something like "Pakka Pay-go". Any truth in that, or, if not, any idea where the notion sprang from?
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