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| | Chapter 10. Proper Names in America. 3. Geographical Names. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language |
 | | This is now Allegany for the Maryland county, the Pennsylvania township and the New York and Oregon towns, Alleghany for the mountains, the Colorado town and the Virginia town and springs, and Allegheny for the Pittsburgh borough and the Pennsylvania county, college and river. |
 | | Berger are chiefly to be found in Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas. |
 | | The Elks, in various forms, are still more numerous, and there are dozens of towns, mountains, lakes, creeks and country districts named after the beaver, martin, coyote, moose and otter, and as many more named after such characteristic flora as the paw-paw, the sycamore, the cottonwood, the locust and the sunflower. |
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