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Colloquial pronunciation LEE-mor / ˈ l iː m ɔːr / Official pronunciation Leominster: LEM-in-stər / ˈ l ɛ m ɪ n s t ər / Levy, South Carolina: LEE-vee / ˈ l iː v i / Lewes: LEW-iss / ˈ l j uː ɪ s / Lima: LY-mə / ˈ l aɪ m ə / Limon, Colorado: LY-mən / ˈ l aɪ m ə n / Livernois Avenue, Detroit: liv-uurr-NOY / l ɪ v ʊ r ˈ n ...
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
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About 200 firefighters were battling a wildfire Monday along the California-Nevada line Monday that destroyed one home, temporarily closed Interstate 80 and continued to threaten hundreds of homes ...
It is named after the Washoe people who originally inhabited the area. It was consolidated with Roop County in 1864. Washoe City was the first county seat in 1861 and was replaced by Reno in 1871. In 1911, a small band of Shoshone and Bannock led by Mike Daggett killed four stockmen in Washoe County. [3]
Reno 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 Nevada compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities and towns in Nevada are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards ...
Reno, Illinois. Unincorporated community. Reno, Illinois ... Area code: 217: GNIS feature ID: 423109 [1] Reno is an unincorporated community in Bond County, Illinois.
dooryard – area around the main entry door of a house, specifically a farmhouse. Typically including the driveway and parking area proximal to the house; Italian (sandwich) – (Maine) submarine sandwich; logan (also pokelogan) – a shallow, swampy lake or pond (from Algonquian) muckle – to grasp, hold-fast, or tear into