[Ads-l] Made up words

[Jonathan Lighter]

What, no "gizmo"?

JL

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> -Wilson
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