the city so nice they named it twice

Mark A Mandel mam at THEWORLD.COM
Sun Jul 21 23:56:41 UTC 2002


On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Laurence Horn wrote:

#At 10:36 AM -0700 7/20/02, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
#>The first time I heard of Walla Walla was from a Buggs Bunny cartoon
#>as a child, but I never knew it had been named twice.
#>
#Yup, once each by the twin naming-wallahs visiting from India.

Heh. That's "named twice", but not "two names, twice". *Is* there any
other city than New York, New York that can be so described?

-- Mark A. Mandel



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