It’s kinda damn cool no matter what! 😎

  • SuzyQ@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 小时前

    I’m not entirely sure. In my state (one of the ones shown as “city”), Wikipedia has 942 cities/towns listed and of those only 25 have “city” in their names.

    I’m tempted to keep going to see how many Lake, Mount(ain), 'ville, 'burg, etc there are.

    • OpenStarsOPMEnglish
      1·
      46 分钟前

      If despite the plethora of other words, City was the “mode”, then that would make sense. Or it could be adjusted for population, or otherwise biased towards whatever the definition of a “city” is to specifically exclude towns and the like?

      In any case it’s kind of a neat graph to think about:-).

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    4 小时前

    NM:
    Eldorado at Santa Fe
    Santa Ana Pueblo
    Santa Clara village
    Santa Clara Pueblo
    Santa Cruz
    Santa Fe
    Santa Rosa
    Santa Teresa
    Santo Domingo Pueblo (do we count this one? It is a matter of gender)

    • OpenStarsOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 小时前

      It depends how sophisticated the algorithm.:-)

    • OpenStarsOPMEnglish
      4·
      5 小时前

      Hono, lulu, lola, kona, kaila, kili - fuck it, we ball, just send it out as-is!:-P

    • OpenStarsOPMEnglish
      1·
      4 小时前

      Probably the names are too diverse? Dallas, Houston, Alamo, but they do have some like San Antonio.

      • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        3 小时前

        While Texas may have a lot of Spanish place names, unlike NM using Santa a lot, and CA using San a lot, Texas just has Spanish names that do not include a similar word.

  • admin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    6 小时前

    I love how one of the most iconic cities of the country has a pronoun. Are they gonna change it to The Wetlands too?

    • OpenStarsOPMEnglish
      1·
      4 小时前

      Which one(s)? Los Angeles? If so, naw, cause certain individuals don’t know how to read in Mexican (the proper term there is Spanish I know:-).

      Edit: I forgot you said The Wetlands.

  • zib@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 小时前

    Maybe I’m misunderstanding this, but I grew up in cental NC and this is only partially true. If you were going to the coast, yeah you’d say “I’m going to the beach”, then probably specify which beach. But, if you were just referring to any other place farther inland, you would most likely use it’s actual name because there are a lot of cities and small towns in relatively close proximity, so you’d have a lot of ambiguity otherwise.

    • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 小时前

      I think it’s a bit more literal than that. They’re saying the names of towns and places have the word beach in them.

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 小时前

        Yup. Live in Kansas and a bunch of tiny towns have city as part of their name. Dodge City, Baldwin City, etc.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
    53·
    6 小时前

    Only things with falls in NY are parks.
    Why is city in so many places, every city is “city of” or “x city”. That’s not really the name though. There be way more of Town than City if thats how you did it.

        • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          3 小时前

          Falls:
          Brasher Falls-Winthrop
          Glens Falls
          Glens Falls North
          High Falls
          Highland Falls village
          Honeoye Falls village
          Hoosick Falls village
          Hudson Falls village
          Little Falls
          Lyons Falls village
          Montour Falls village
          Niagara Falls
          Oriskany Falls village
          Rensselaer Falls village
          Seneca Falls village South Fallsburg (should this one count?)
          South Glens Falls village
          Valley Falls village
          Wappingers Falls village
          West Glens Falls

          For a total of 19, 20 if we count Fallsburg. Where city only has 6, however ville has 87, and village 557 listed. But I am unsure that the village is part of the place name.

          https://www.alphalists.com/list/alphabetical-list-new-york-cities

    • OpenStarsOPMEnglish
      1·
      4 小时前

      Who knows. Would NYC even be considered one “city”, rather than a set of burroughs, for this purpose? Or are the names perhaps normalized by population? If so, would they remove outliers as many statistical packages will do for you, but in this case they should leave them in, so if they were removed automatically that would not be great. Or if they just went with one name = one count then is there a minimum cutoff? Or a nearness criteria e.g. places near NYC still get swept up into it? And like how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? So many unanswered questions here…

    • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 小时前

      Some places have City in the name of the place, like New York City, Oregon City, Rapids City. Sometimes the place really doesn’t seem large enough to merit the name, like Siler City, NC, although I suppose in the 19th century it was more prominent in its part of the state.

    • ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      6 小时前

      every city is “city of” or “x city”

      I think a hasty generalization has led to a false assumption. Many cities are incorporated as “City of x” or “x City”. But, “many” is not equivalent to “all”.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    6 小时前

    I’m sure it’s true, but like, I don’t know any locations in Maine that follow the “new” trait. I do know of one or two that follow the “Island” trait though.

    • OpenStarsOPMEnglish
      1·
      4 小时前

      That is the only state that I see a gradient coloration for. If you were in the northern part of Maine, that might explain it? (Assuming the gradient was intended to mean literally north vs. south as opposed to more generically some parts vs. other parts)