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	<title>Comments on: Toponymy - the naming of places</title>
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	<description>Ned Gulley's Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: St. Frank</title>
		<link>http://www.starchamber.com/2005/11/toponymy-the-naming-of-places.html#comment-861</link>
		<dc:creator>St. Frank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pond vs. Lake?
Somehow, 10,000 Ponds doesn't seem to carry the same weight as 10,000 Lakes...
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pond vs. Lake?<br />
Somehow, 10,000 Ponds doesn&#8217;t seem to carry the same weight as 10,000 Lakes&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Ned</title>
		<link>http://www.starchamber.com/2005/11/toponymy-the-naming-of-places.html#comment-860</link>
		<dc:creator>Ned</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks pfly! I've added some more comments to the original post to reflect your excellent research.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks pfly! I&#8217;ve added some more comments to the original post to reflect your excellent research.</p>
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		<title>By: pfly</title>
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		<dc:creator>pfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hiya, the author pfly is me.. I thought I'd map-answer your questions:

&lt;a href="http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/gnis.bear.jpg" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/gnis.bear.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
Seems to be about an equal number of "Bear" placenames in  the east and the west.  The west won in this map, but if the line between east and west was drawn a bit more west, the east might win.  (also it depends on what counts as a placename.. and I've edited out some of the GNIS data, like churches and schools, because they seem to have been differently collected for different states, and are in many cases wrong or out of date)

&lt;a href="http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/gnis.santa-san-los.jpg" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/gnis.santa-san-los.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
More placenames start with San- than Santa-, or Los-.  This map is of the whole US, but San- wins out in just California too.

&lt;a href="http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/gnis.devil.jpg" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/gnis.devil.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
As for Devil, there are so many.. though this map isn't restricted to National Parks.  What made me laugh in checking Devil placenames out is that there seems to be a whole Devil's body (backbone, teeth, thumb, toenail, eyebrow, etc), Devil's household (tea table, saltcellar, ice box, bathtub, etc), and a bunch of other strange ones (Devil's potato patch, tater patch, turnip patch, golf course, ball diamond, cotton patch, parade ground, racecourse, etc).

There are a bunch of other maps at &lt;a href="http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/&lt;/a&gt;
in rough unorganized form.. some good some not so good.  The GNIS map files start with "gnis."

Thanks for the post!  This placename mapping stuff is fun and sometimes weird..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hiya, the author pfly is me.. I thought I&#8217;d map-answer your questions:</p>
<p><a href="http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/gnis.bear.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/gnis.bear.jpg</a><br />
Seems to be about an equal number of &#8220;Bear&#8221; placenames in  the east and the west.  The west won in this map, but if the line between east and west was drawn a bit more west, the east might win.  (also it depends on what counts as a placename.. and I&#8217;ve edited out some of the GNIS data, like churches and schools, because they seem to have been differently collected for different states, and are in many cases wrong or out of date)</p>
<p><a href="http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/gnis.santa-san-los.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/gnis.santa-san-los.jpg</a><br />
More placenames start with San- than Santa-, or Los-.  This map is of the whole US, but San- wins out in just California too.</p>
<p><a href="http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/gnis.devil.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/gnis.devil.jpg</a><br />
As for Devil, there are so many.. though this map isn&#8217;t restricted to National Parks.  What made me laugh in checking Devil placenames out is that there seems to be a whole Devil&#8217;s body (backbone, teeth, thumb, toenail, eyebrow, etc), Devil&#8217;s household (tea table, saltcellar, ice box, bathtub, etc), and a bunch of other strange ones (Devil&#8217;s potato patch, tater patch, turnip patch, golf course, ball diamond, cotton patch, parade ground, racecourse, etc).</p>
<p>There are a bunch of other maps at <a href="http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/" rel="nofollow">http://seattle.gii.net/~pfly/</a><br />
in rough unorganized form.. some good some not so good.  The GNIS map files start with &#8220;gnis.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thanks for the post!  This placename mapping stuff is fun and sometimes weird..</p>
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