Coalinga, LIpantitlan

ANTHONY APPLEYARD a.appleyard at BTINTERNET.COM
Thu Apr 14 05:59:31 UTC 2005


I have come across a guesstymology or urban myth that the name of the
place Coalinga http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coalinga in
California came from "Coaling [station] A" where steam railway engines
got coal. Is this correct? Or does the name refer to a different sort
of thing that hisses, namely Nahuatl [coatl]?

Lipantitlan http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/lipan/lipan.htm in Texas
looks Nahuatl, but the initial L looks unnatural for Nahuatl. Is this
[lipan] the name of a local native tribe?



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