NewYork is notorious for its unusual terminology, in that the trial court is called the Supreme Court.
Additionally, the name of Idaho was presented as a Native American word by eccentric lobbyist George M. Willing, though it was later revealed that he made it up.
The nameNewYork can refer to any one of three geographical levels: a state, a city in that state, or a county (coterminous with the borough of Manhattan) in that city.
The name of Burgundy became primarily associated with the French Duchy of Burgundy (which bestowed its name on the wine of the region) and its subsequent possessions in the Low Countries.
I had seen individual names in histories, but it seemed like the matter was not well enough known for a list to be assembled.
The County of Middlesex, occupied by the City of London, tended to be part of Essex, but this was the area where three Kingdoms came together and the border moved around a good bit.
www.friesian.com /germania.htm (6326 words)
Online Reference Shelf, McIntyre Library, UW-Eau Claire(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Lists all the embassies that a country has in various parts of the world or all the world's embassies in that country
Listings within each section are arranged by main entry with classified and alphabetical subject indexes.
Lists nearly every active and ceased periodical, annual, irregular publication, and monographic series published throughout the world, plus thousands of newpapers.
Studies listed in the database are conducted in all 50 States and in over 90 countries.
Provides access to listings of poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction that make significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements, including hypertexts and other interactive works, kinetic or animated poems, multimedia works, generated texts, and other works that permit reader collaboration.
New novels will be added as they become available, and a section on classic North Carolina novels is also planned.
The early settlers of Georgia: a list of the file headings of the loose headright and bounty land grant files in the Georgia Department of Archives and History
Etymologies and Genealogies: A Literary Anthropology of the French Middle Ages
An every name index to the 1871 census returns for Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia: an every name index to the nominal return of the living: nominal return of the deaths within last twelve months, and the return of industrial establishments
Sure, the New Testament might be the most famous work in that dialect, but it makes a poor challenge because most people already have the translation of so many passages lurking in their subconscious.
I tried to do some new etymological research on the element names, and find the original articles where the discoverer of a new element announced his find and explained the naming.
And when I checked the street names in the Madrid section of the book, I found that two that were supposed to be contiguous were in fact far apart, and a third does not exist.
