> > > > Tra "was there ever an OLD Zealand?" nio
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> > > Yes, there was. Zeeland was Holland. When the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman discovered this one, he called it Nieuw Zeeland.
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> > > Brunnen-"we spell it wrong"G
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> > We spell the name of our county wrong. It was named for the Earle of Loudoun and somehow it wound up without one of the u's. Loudon. I prefer the old English spelling.
> > Howard
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> Then there's the story on how they named Plano, Texas, because they thought "plano" was Spanish for "plains".
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> -Faux "Cut-and-Shoot, Texas" Pas

The funny thing is that I ran across that name recently, and wondered about it's origin!:-0

There is a town in Kentucky named 88. The story is that the first postmaster there couldn't read words, but he could read numbers. There is also a town called six. (spelled out) I think it was the population.
Howard