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Rancho Cucamonga, California is the ugliest name I have ever heard.
It sounds made up doesn't it? Like something a TV writer would create when they needed a name for a generic fake SoCal or Sun Belt suburb for a TV show.
I always thought a city called Mississippi City would be cool Dont know if it exists
For states I love the name Louisiana!
Mississippi City would be awesome, even better if it wasn't in Mississippi. I love the names like Texas City, Missouri City, etc.
I think that New York, New Orleans, Memphis, Houston, Baton Rouge (with the New Orleans pronunciation), Saint Louis, Marrero, Hialeah, Kendall, Jamaica (NY), Southaven, Mobile, Miami, Napoleonville, Charleston, and others are all pretty cool names.
Spanish and French-named cities sound pretty exotic and cool in the United States, but in French and Spanish speaking countries they might sound kind of strange. Like Baton Rouge and Boca Raton sound interesting to us, but Red Stick doesn't have the same ring to it--and who'd want to live somewhere named Rat's Mouth. Likewise Santa Barbara sounds like a beautiful woman, while Saint Barbara reminds me of someones aunt.
And Palo Alto, Los Gatos, La Jolla, Atascadero, Escondido, Corte Madera, and Los Banos sound cool, but Big Tree, The Cats, The Jewel, Mudhole, Hidden, Chop Wood, and The Baths sounds like something from a children's storybook--to say nothing of Manteca--Spanish for lard.
I guess though it's that Romance languages like Spanish and French just sound a little more romantic than the Germanic tongues like English...
Maybe one of the cities named Portland in the US should change their name to Puerto de la Tierra. That sounds much better.
Boca Raton always makes me laugh. I like Los Gatos in either language, though, and Chopwood has a quaint sound to it.
I'm all for Puerto de la Tierra. But, it's too bad it couldn't take the name of the river it's beside ( Columbia works ) or for that matter the valley it's in ( Willamette ), both very nice names.
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What's it rhyme with?
Nothing. Let's just say this Newfundland town rhymes with kill-dough.
I'm not real big on the fakey, pretentious sounding names like The Woodlands, TX, The Villages, FL, Country Walk, FL, Celebration, FL, Hamptons at Boca Raton, FL, Cornwall on Hudson, NY, King of Prussia, PA, The Colony, TX, Mentor on the Lake, OH, Golf Manor, OH, Town and Country, MO, Apple Valley, MN, Paradise Valley, AZ, Eastpointe, MI, and Orchard Lake Village, MI.
I'm not real big on the fakey, pretentious sounding names like The Woodlands, TX, The Villages, FL, Country Walk, FL, Celebration, FL, Hamptons at Boca Raton, FL, Cornwall on Hudson, NY, King of Prussia, PA, The Colony, TX, Mentor on the Lake, OH, Golf Manor, OH, Town and Country, MO, Apple Valley, MN, Paradise Valley, AZ, Eastpointe, MI, and Orchard Lake Village, MI.
You forgot my favorite: Trophy Club, TX. Yes, I swear, it's a real suburb of Fort Worth with a city government and everything, complete with a high school named for a pro golfer.
I like the sound of Nantucket, and its the only place in the US with the same name for and Island, Town, and a County.
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