Name a city without the letter "a" in it

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/19/2014 03:58 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>Wouldn't there be lots of such cities in the 
>backwoods of China?  Or has English (if not 
>Latin) already penetrated too far for that to be 
>possible?  On WB's model, how about, say, 
>Nineveh, or any other ancient city that 
>disappeared before contact with Latin-alphabet 
>users, e.g. Cuzco, Macchu Picchu, etc.?  After all, it just said "Name a city
"

And Larry just named a city using the Latin 
alphabet that doesn't have an A in it (that is, in its name).

Joel 

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