[Ads-l] Made up words

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 1:58 PM, MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY
RDECOM AMRDEC (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

> Xanadu


Strictly speaking, this word isn't "made up" in the sense that you intend,
being a variant of the name of an actual place, like "Chitown" for
"Chicago."

Wikipedia:

Shangdu (Mandarin: [ʂɑ̂ŋ tú]), also known as Xanadu (/ˈzæ.nə.duː/;
Mongolian: Šandu), was the capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty in China,
before he decided to move his throne to the Jin dynasty capital of Zhōngdū
(Chinese: 中都; literally: "Middle Capital"), which he renamed Khanbaliq,
present-day Beijing. Shangdu then became his summer capital.

Shangdu (Xanadu) was visited by the Venetian traveller Marco Polo in about
1275, and was destroyed in 1369 by the Ming army under Zhu Yuanzhang. In
1797 historical accounts of the city inspired the famous poem Kubla Khan by
the English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangdu

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