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Chevy Chase. A township and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland near Washington, D.C., originally called "Cheivy Chace". One source mentions that actor Chevy Chase was nicknamed after this town, but both actually have associations from a historic English ballad called The Ballad of Chevy Chase .
Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [ 2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including especially short or long names. These names often have an unintended effect or double-meaning when read by ...
Reno, Nevada proudly displays its nickname as "The Biggest Little City in the World" on a large sign above a downtown street.. This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards ...
The following is a list of adjectival forms of cities in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these cities. Demonyms ending in -ese are the same in the singular and plural forms. The ending -man has feminine equivalent -woman (e.g. an Irishman and a Scotswoman ).
Jewel of the Hills [ 16] Larkspur – The Twin City (with Corte Madera) [ 29] Linden – Cherry Capital of the World [ 16] Livingston – Sweet Potato Capitol of the World [ 16] Lodi. Tokay Grape Capital of the World [ 16] Zinfandel Capital of the World [ 53] Lompoc – Flower Seed Capital of the World [ 54][ 8] Long Beach.
Ottumwa – Algonquian word possibly meaning "rippling waters", "place of perseverance or self-will", or "town". Owanka – Lakota for "good camping ground". It was originally named Wicota, a Lakota word meaning "a crowd". [ 135] Pukwana – the name given to the smoke emitted from a Native American peace pipe.
Dorics, Donians or Teuchters. Football team are nicknamed The Dons. Arbroath. Red Lichties or Lichties, Codheids. Basingstoke. Amazingstoke, Bas Vegans after Bas Vegas , Basingjoker , Stokie. Barnsley. Barnzolians, Tykes, [ 1] Colliers (a former mining community), Dingles (by people from Sheffield) Barrow in Furness.
This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.