New York: British or American?

[Gangerolf]

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Accented letters are accepted. I already changed many of the Roman cities with the 'ae' in it to a 'æ'. So Cumae turns ***æ.

how come it cencored ***æ and not Cumae?

you can also change Konigsberg into Königsberg and heaps others as well

[Gangerolf]

...and even give the german cities german names, Cologne -> Köln, Munich -> München, Nuremberg -> Nürnberg.
and Moscow ->Moskva

[Lucilla]

Originally posted by Gangerolf
...and even give the german cities german names, Cologne -> Köln, Munich -> München, Nuremberg -> Nürnberg.
and Moscow ->Moskva

There's already a thread with city names

I prefer having cities in their original spelling.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by OPD
I was in Hollywood the other day. Quite small, near Derby (UK).
Alot of American cities share names with small villages in England.

Ahh, but is your Hollywood over run with bulemic actresses and transvestite hookers? Didn't think so...

[Kramerman]

Ahh, but is your Hollywood over run with bulemic actresses and transvestite hookers? Didn't think so...

lol. Yep, from the description above, I'd say there is no way your Hollywood is better than ours. *chant* U S A, U S A, U S A.

Kman

[Willem]

Originally posted by Ribannah
The other half have native Amerind names, and the third half (mostly tiny villages) are named after their founder.

Huh? I see you didn't do well in math at school.

Then again, America is a small village in The Netherlands ...

Or geography. You can sink all of Holland in any one of the Great Lakes, and still have room to spare.

[Lucilla]

Originally posted by Willem


Huh? I see you didn't do well in math at school.



Or geography. You can sink all of Holland in any one of the Great Lakes, and still have room to spare.

Speaking of geography: Holland is not the same as The Netherlands...

[Willem]

Originally posted by Lucilla


Speaking of geography: Holland is not the same as The Netherlands...

Yes I realize that, it's actually one of the provinces, but most people don't. Holland for North Americans at least means the same thing as The Netherlands does.

[Fraze]

Originally posted by Lucilla


Speaking of geography: Holland is not the same as The Netherlands...

I've always wondered about that, the two names are pretty much interchangeable in England too.

I always felt it was pretty unimaginative of colonists to name there towns after where they came from. Why can't they think up new names.

[Lucilla]

There's heaps of people who'd say that Scottish, Welsh or even Irish people are English. In Germany (that's where I come from) people generally don't distinguish between England, the UK or Great Britain and Ireland. And I started using "The Netherlands" instead of "Holland" when I moved to The Netherlands, although I was aware of the difference beforehand.

Edit: Just to make sure that I'm not misunderstood: I think people should be aware the differences and use the terms accordingly.

[Zachriel]

Originally posted by Fraze
I've always wondered about that, the two names are pretty much interchangeable in England too.

I always felt it was pretty unimaginative of colonists to name there towns after where they came from. Why can't they think up new names.

Nostalgia.

[HazieDaVampire]

NewYork is American, New York is English, there!

And this has had me confused for a while, is Prussia got somthing to do wit the Germans? Cuz in EE they had Prussian Cavalry in one of the WW1 missions

[Lucilla]

Originally posted by HazieDaVampire
And this has had me confused for a while, is Prussia got somthing to do wit the Germans? Cuz in EE they had Prussian Cavalry in one of the WW1 missions

Prussia has a lot to do with Germany. Here's part of the article about Prussia from the Encyclopedia Britannica:

Prussia, German PREUSSEN, Polish PRUSY, in European history, any of certain areas of eastern and central Europe, respectively (1) the land of the Prussians on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea, which came under Polish and German rule in the Middle Ages; (2) the kingdom ruled from 1701 by the German Hohenzollern dynasty, including Prussia and Brandenburg, with Berlin as its capital, which seized much of northern Germany and western Poland in the 18th and 19th centuries and united Germany under its leadership in 1871; and (3) the Land (state) created after the fall of the Hohenzollerns in 1918, which included most of their former kingdom and which was abolished by the Allies in 1947 as part of the political reorganization of Germany after its defeat in World War II.

[Kramerman]

Holland for North Americans at least means the same thing as The Netherlands does.

Yeah, whats the deal with that. Wasn't "The Netherlands" once called Holland or something. Its just I've heard it refered to as Holland before, and I'm pretty sure they weren't talking about a province in "The Netherlands". I shall forever be suspicious of a country that puts "The" in their name though.

[Fraze]

Like The United States of America for instance