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> On 18 Apr 2017, at 11:46, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 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

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