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  2. List of double placenames - Wikipedia

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    Double placenames prominently feature the placenames of two or more constituents in double-barrelled form rather than invent a new name. This is often out of consideration for local sensitivities, since the smaller entity may resent its takeover, and may demand its symbolic perpetuation within an amalgamated name so as to propagate the impression of a merger between equals.

  3. List of divided cities - Wikipedia

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    The community was founded in 1903 in what was then the Northwest Territories, and located on the Fourth Meridian of the Dominion Land Survey, which became the boundary between the newly created provinces two years later. In 1930, the community was reunited as a single town under the shared jurisdiction of both provinces, and reincorporated as a ...

  4. Glossary of road transport terms - Wikipedia

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    A type of diamond interchange in which the two directions of traffic on the non-freeway road cross to the opposite side on both sides of the bridge at the freeway. DLT. See continuous-flow intersection. Drawbridge. See moveable bridge. Driverless car. See self-driving car. Driver's license or driving licence

  5. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

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    The anglicised form appears more tautological as the word dale in English is used to describe any valley. Glen Canyon (multiple examples) Glen of Aherlow – a glen is a long, deep valley, while Aherlow is from the Irish eatharlach, meaning "lowland between two mountains", i.e. a valley. Gobi Desert, Mongolia (Desert Desert – "Govi" is Mongolian)

  6. Cross-platform interchange - Wikipedia

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    The two ends of the single platform terminate different routes, and interchange for through service is by walking along the platform. Another peculiar configuration exists at Pittsburg/Bay Point station on the BART system in the San Francisco Bay area, California , United States .

  7. List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles

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    First reference gives the word as the local pronunciation of go out; the second as "A water-pipe under the ground. A sewer. A flood-gate, through which the marsh-water runs from the reens into the sea." Reen is a Somerset word, not used in the Fens. Gout appears to be cognate with the French égout, "sewer". Though the modern mind associates ...

  8. List of geographic anagrams and anadromes - Wikipedia

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    Anagrams are rearrangements of the letters of another name or word. Anadromes (also called reversals or ananyms) are other names or words spelled backwards. Technically, a reversal is also an anagram, but the two are derived by different methods, so they are listed separately.

  9. List of national capital city name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Budapest: Formed in 1872 from the merger of two cities on opposite shores of the Danube: Buda and Pest. Pest is a Slavic name meaning "furnace, oven, cove" (cf. Rus. Печь pech'). Pest is a Slavic name meaning "furnace, oven, cove" (cf. Rus. Печь pech').