*** Quoting Bo Simonsen from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***


 BS>> Who is supposed to authorize a city name? :)

 CS> Hehe well the USA is famous for grabbing ones from all over and using 
 CS> them here.  Even New York is a reuse of England's 'York'.

BS> Yep, there is also a city called Berlin, somewhere, i not good at name
BS> and area of the states in USA.

Actually, I think there are a couple of them.  Most biggish European cities
¨have a namesake (or at least a close derivative) in the states.  Some have
¨several sprinkled across more than one state.  (Greenville is the famous
case, ¨with 27 of them.  One of those USA trivia questions).

We also have alot of Indian names as you would expect.

 CS> My favorites though relate to my home area.  I come from Clemson SC, 
 CS> so named after a fellow who's last name was Clemson, lost a wheel off 
 CS> his wagon onthe way to the Smokey Mountain pass. He was too lazy to 
 CS> go on further so made his farm there.  

BS> Heh, there might a story of every city.

BS> If i pronoince the name in my native language, Danish, it sounds like
BS> "glemsom", whitch mean mindless.

Not too far off!  The local pronounciation is a hard K with a gutteral
almost ¨'g' nuance to it.  Ends in N though vice M.  'K(g)lem-son'.  In the
USA there ¨is a joke about 'hoogers' (meaning backward people).  Comes from
the Hooger ¨River which is a 1 hour drive from Clemson, near Seneca (Indian
name, and so is ¨the river I gather).

 CS>  It's 96 miles from Clemson....  Population is about 275  to be 265 til Hester-Sue got married to Joey Davis and started her 
 CS> factory>own little production .

BS> LOL! :-)

Gosh I love small towns!
                                       xxcarol

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