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  2. List of irregularly spelled places in the United States

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    Also a place in Pennsylvania Hindman, Kentucky: HIM-ən / ˈ h ɪ m ən / [n 12] Hochheim, Texas: HOH-hyme / ˈ h oʊ h aɪ m / Hockessin, Delaware: HOH-kess-in / ˈ h oʊ k ɛ s ɪ n / Holcomb, Missouri: HAW-kəm / ˈ h ɔː k əm / Houston, Delaware: HOW-stən / ˈ h aʊ s t ən / Also places in Georgia and Ohio, and the New York City street ...

  3. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    List of irregularly spelled English names. This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.

  4. List of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania. There are currently 956 municipalities classified as boroughs and one classified as a town in Pennsylvania. Unlike other forms of municipalities in Pennsylvania, boroughs and towns are not classified according to population. Boroughs designated in the table below with a dagger (†) are home ...

  5. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A township in Granville County, North Carolina. A locality within Burwood East, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The capital city of Tank District, Pakistan, and located near Dera Ismail Khan. Apparently this place loves tanks. A town in Estonia. "Tapa" means "kill" in Estonian. A river in North Carolina.

  6. List of city nicknames in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    This partial list of city nicknames in Pennsylvania compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities, boroughs, and towns in Pennsylvania are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.

  7. List of cities in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Cities gallery. Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania and sixth-largest city in the United States with a population of 1.6 million. Pittsburgh, the second-largest city in Pennsylvania. Allentown, the third-largest city in Pennsylvania. Reading, the fourth-largest city in Pennsylvania. Erie, the fifth-largest city in Pennsylvania.

  8. Wikipedia : WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia/Pronunciation task force

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    Much of the advice at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia/Recording guidelines applies here (e.g. equalization and noise reduction), except that unlike a spoken article, a pronunciation recording should contain only the pronunciation of the word, and no English description or explanation. This allows it to be reused across projects.

  9. Dauphin County, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Dauphin County (/ ˈdɔːfɪn /; Pennsylvania Dutch: Daffin Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 286,401. [ 2 ] The county seat is Harrisburg, [ 3 ] Pennsylvania's state capital and ninth-most populous city. The county was created on March 4, 1785, from part of Lancaster County and ...