Friday, June 26, 2020

A city so nice, they named it twice



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New York, New York, a city so nice, they named it twice.

I just love that. Actually, I think they mean New York City, New York state, but it's a lovely joke.

I love the song America, the beautiful.

Every now and then a proposal comes up to change the American anthem.

The Chinese word for American is beautiful country.

Not the only place named twice.

Bora Bora.

Beggin-Beggin

Brit-Brit

Gil Gil.

Many more.


  • About the Author
    Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
    I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a travel writer and photographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.

    Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a language evaluator or grammarian.  We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.

    I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other Wednesdays are workshops on app 

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  • https://www.facebook.com/groups/polygotcommunity/

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reduplicated_place_names

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reduplicated_Australian_place_names

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reduplicated_New_Zealand_place_names
  • https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs
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    duolingo.com



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