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Hi!

Are there here any porteños who could kindly help me with the question mentioned in the subject?
I ran into this toponym while reading a novel by an Argentinian writer and didn't understand what was meant here:

"A las pocas semanas de la intervención quirúrgica mi padre, instalado en los sótanos de Corrientes y Uriburu (un santuario para ( Read more... )

hello,
i read once that the name of Georgian capital city Tbilisi [თბილისი] means "warm place" in Georgian.
i checked it with this German<->Georgian dictionary and indeed 'warm' is "tbili" [თბილი ( Read more... )

Even though nations and peoples may disappear and transition with time, oftentimes their names remain-- if even in an archaic, etymological reference. However, we sometimes take this for granted. Could these areas now so-labelled be legitimately referred to using the "old" name?

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The state of Nevada has adopted a slogan for its tourism campaign: Nevăda: Wide Open, referring both to the 'correct' pronunciation of the name of the state (marked in all the ads with the phonetic system I was taught in elementary school) and the ... wide-open possibilities of the desert, I suppose. Does this strike anyone as odd, though? I ( Read more... )

When I was at school (in the UK) there was a geography lesson you were guaranteed to get several times on how you could often tell the origins of a place by its name. It ran something like this:

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Does anybody happen to know if the town name "Salem" (not just in MA, there are Salems in other states too) came from the name of the city of Jerusalem?