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Old Posted Sep 18, 2018, 1:16 AM
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I'm with everyone that likes cities named after Native North American words.

I personally find the least inspiring are cities named after people i.e Jacksonville (no offense)..Ditto for Cleveland..I also find cities named after geological formations or geographic locations uninspiring as well. At least the English language versions.. Little Rock and Grand Bend both come to mind..As well, (most of the time) they have to have those hard consonants to sound good to me..London, Toronto, and Paris just don't do it for me.

Others I like:

Tokyo
Moscow
Montreal
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Barcelona (only with the soft c)
Wait, hold on, you're implying there is some other way people say that?

Like, Barkelona?

No. Ugh.
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Old Posted Sep 18, 2018, 2:00 AM
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Vienna
Montreal
Buenos Aries
Dresden
Kyoto
Rio de Janeiro
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Old Posted Sep 18, 2018, 4:30 AM
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Some of my favorites:

Darwin
Brisbane
Alice Springs
Wellington
Medellin
Sabinas Hildalgo
Veracruz
Santa Barbara
Avalon
Savannah
Oxford
Manchester
Highclere
Napoli
Vienna
Dubrovnik
Bangalore
Schaumburg
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Old Posted Sep 18, 2018, 9:46 AM
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Wait, hold on, you're implying there is some other way people say that?

Like, Barkelona?

No. Ugh.
Barthelona.
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Old Posted Sep 18, 2018, 11:32 AM
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Darwin
Honolulu
Sydney
Shanghai
Detroit
San Francisco
Buenos Aires
Casablanca
San Sebastian
Kolkata
Colombo
Montreal
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Old Posted Sep 18, 2018, 12:49 PM
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Toronto
Philadelphia
Las Vegas
Seattle
Vancouver
Tampa
Washington

These are a few that come to mind.

Maybe my favorite place name is Ontario (which is also a city, but I connect the name to the province). Maybe it's because I have "always" been in Ontario in July and August, when the weather is great, but the name just seems sunny and vibrant. The sound and mixture of letters make me think of lush woodlands and sandy lakeside beaches.
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Old Posted Sep 18, 2018, 1:58 PM
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Hohokus, NJ

Yes, and Hohokus on a triple bill with Paramus and Hoboken. Sweet.
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Barthelona.
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Old Posted Sep 18, 2018, 3:04 PM
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Casablanca is a good one.
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Off the top of my head:

Khartoum
Beirut
Aberdeen(even cooler when it refers to the suburb of Hong Kong!)
Toronto
Vienna(but not Wien)
Beograd
Budapest
Sao Paulo
Tauranga(New Zealand)
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I love Québec when pronounced right (/ke.bɛk/) and hate it when pronounced in english (/kwɪˈbɛk/ City). There's no "W" whatsoever in the name.

Others I always loved :
  • Saskatoon (Canada) -> WAY better than Regina -_-
  • Mississauga (Canada)
  • Rimouski (Canada)
  • Chattanooga (USA)
  • Bâton-Rouge (USA) (lol)
  • Acapulco (Mexico)
  • Brest (France)
  • Köln (Deutschland)
  • Melbourne (Australia)
  • Vladivostock [Владивосто́к] (Росси́я)
  • Osaka [大阪市] (Japan)
  • Tegucigalpa (Honduras)
  • Maracaibo (Venezuela)
  • Montevideo (Uruguay)
  • Lusaka (Zambia)
    etc.
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Old Posted Sep 18, 2018, 3:59 PM
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Valparaiso and Santiago are two nice ones in Chile. I love the way local speakers say Medellin and Cartagena as well.
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Casablanca is a good one.
Morocco has several nice sounding place names: Marrakech, Meknès, Fès, Agadir...

Though Rabat and Tanger (Tangiers) don't sound so nice.
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Old Posted Sep 18, 2018, 4:06 PM
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Dislike:

Liverpool
Kuala Lumpur
Ouagadougou
Nantes
Doha
Mangalore
Dongguan
Guangzhou
Naypidaw
Brussels
Bonn
Leeds
What's not to like about Ouagadougou?
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Old Posted Sep 18, 2018, 6:56 PM
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Some of my favorites:

Darwin
Brisbane
Alice Springs
Wellington
Medellin
Sabinas Hildalgo
Veracruz
Santa Barbara
Avalon
Savannah
Oxford
Manchester
Highclere
Napoli
Vienna
Dubrovnik
Bangalore
Schaumburg
This is hilarious.
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Old Posted Sep 18, 2018, 7:13 PM
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What's not to like about Ouagadougou?
Be warned....

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Old Posted Sep 18, 2018, 7:42 PM
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Hamburg
Stockholm
Valencia
Marseille
Amsterdam
Washington
Charlotte
Vancouver
Seattle
San Francisco
Memphis
Rio De Janerio
Cape Town
Saigon
Sydney
Jerusalem
Casablanca
Palermo
Bordeaux
Cambridge
Vienna
Knoxville
Istanbul (Constantinople is also great)
Kumamoto
Manhatten (Love it, even if not a city). Never cared much for New York City as a name.
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