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This is a list of places with reduplication in their names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the languages from which the names are derived. Duplicated names from the indigenous languages of Australia , Chile and New Zealand are listed separately and excluded from this page.
1919 Yarram Yarram postmark – the town is now Yarram These names are examples of reduplication, a common theme in Australian toponymy, especially in names derived from Indigenous Australian languages such as Wiradjuri. Reduplication is often used as an intensifier such as "Wagga Wagga" many crows and "Tilba Tilba" many waters. The phenomenon has been the subject of interest in popular ...
Reduplication is a linguistic phenomenon in which a word is doubled, e.g. for emphasis or as a plural. This category contains reduplicant words. Reduplicant place names should not be categorized here but added to the List of reduplicated place names, or the separate lists for Australia or New Zealand as appropriate.
Reduplication of the final syllable; e.g. himaymay ("separate meat from bones"), from himay (same meaning) Reduplication of the final syllable of a disyllabic word, where the added syllable is created from the first consonant of the first syllable and the last consonant of the second syllable; e.g. kaliskis ("[fish] scale"), from kalis ("to ...
Image credits: LittlestSlipper55 When you look around, you might be surprised how many things have names that can really mislead you. Take guinea pigs, for example.
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2. Cornicione. Many people don’t eat pizza crust, preferring to dine on the triangular part with the cheese and tomato sauce and then eschew the carbo-load found in the outer crust.
This is a list of placeholder names (words that can refer to things, persons, places, numbers and other concepts whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, unknown or being deliberately withheld in the context in which they are being discussed) in various languages.