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  2. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Russian, the format "Ozero X-ozero" (i.e. "Lake X-lake") is used. In English, it is usual to do the same for foreign names, even if they already describe the feature, for example Lake Kemijärvi (Lake Kemi-lake), Faroe Islands (literally Sheep-Island Islands, as øy is Modern Faroese for Island), or Saaremaa island (Island land ...

  3. List of onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...

  4. Fire Island Inlet Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The Fire Island Inlet Bridge, an integral part of the Robert Moses Causeway, is a two-lane, steel tied arch span with a concrete deck that carries the parkway over Fire Island Inlet. Construction of the Fire Island Bridge was completed in 1964 and although a relatively young structure, (about 60 years old), its concrete deck has suffered from ...

  5. Robert Moses Causeway - Wikipedia

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    When first proposed in 1938, the span was to be a vertical-lift bridge with a design similar to that of the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge. Later, the design of the Fire Island Bridge was changed to conform with that of the Great South Bay span, a 600-foot (180 m) steel-arch span with a 60-foot (18 m) clearance.

  6. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A former comune in France. Bouzille sounds like "bousiller" which means either "to cock up" or "screw up" in French. Bowna: A community in the Riverina, New South Wales, Australia. Sounds like "boner", a slang term for an erection, when said in a non-rhotic accent. Box: A large village, civil parish and very early railroad tunnel in Wiltshire ...

  7. Fire Island Inlet - Wikipedia

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    Fire Island Inlet is an inlet on the south shore of Long Island, New York. It connects the Great South Bay with the Atlantic Ocean , passing between Robert Moses State Park (the western end of Fire Island ) on the south and Oak Beach and Captree State Park (the eastern end of Jones Beach Island ) on the north.

  8. Fire Island - Wikipedia

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    Fire Island is the large center island of the outer barrier islands parallel to the South Shore of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. Occasionally, the name is used to refer collectively to not only the central island, but also Long Beach Barrier Island , Jones Beach Island , and Westhampton Island , since the straits that separate ...

  9. High Tider - Wikipedia

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    Raising of / ɛ / in this environment, causing mesh to sound almost like maysh. [22] The r-colored vowel / ɛər / may have an opener vowel sound: [æɚ~aɚ], making the sound of fair almost merge with fire and far. [16] [21] [23] There is no cot–caught merger. The / oʊ / vowel is largely fronted, as in much of the rest of the modern-day ...