# Describe a city using only one-syllable words, try to guess other posters' cities **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 22, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256 "2025-01-22T15:39:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/21 "2025-01-22T17:32:44Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > Springfield? Yes! Good job. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/22 "2025-01-22T17:39:45Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Wayne’s World; Alice said it. “Alice” is two syllables, but I assume this is a reference to Milwaukee. Here’s one place I used to live: The March King died here. It has a train line named on a well-known game board. Home to an East Coast farm team. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/23 "2025-01-22T17:45:38Z")
Steel, smoke and three land veins run through. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/24 "2025-01-22T17:55:09Z")
Pittsburgh? – whoops, annoying discourse. @Ellecram ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/25 "2025-01-22T17:57:08Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > The March King died here. It has a train line named on a well-known game board. Home to an East Coast farm team. Had to look this one up. Reading, PA ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/26 "2025-01-22T17:57:28Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Pittsburgh? > > – whoops, annoying discourse. @Ellecram. Yes! …and Discourse is so easily annoyed. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/27 "2025-01-22T18:00:38Z")
Town known for red fruit and juice. Could be big church in an old song. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/28 "2025-01-22T18:02:25Z")
This is a big town in the South, with a strong food vibe and a strong jazz vibe. And each year tons and tons and tons of folks come for Fat Day, then next is Ash Day and all the folks go home and the town is not as fun. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/29 "2025-01-22T18:02:58Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > This is a big town in the South, with a strong food vibe and a strong jazz vibe. And each year tons and tons and tons of folks come for Fat Day, then next is Ash Day and all the folks go home and the town is not as fun. New Orleans? ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/30 "2025-01-22T18:04:02Z")
Used to be known as the place of a word that means ground grain. Grew things folks live in on the grain land. Now known as the place of a word that means bloom but is said the same as the word that means ground grain. ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/31 "2025-01-22T18:25:08Z")
- Home of John, Paul, George and Starr on drums, best pop group of all time. Liverpool - Post World War two all goods came in by air. Berlin - White Cliffs, next stop France Dover, England - Huge old Sphinx Cairo ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/32 "2025-01-22T18:27:00Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Used to be known as the place of a word that means ground grain. Grew things folks live in on the grain land. Now known as the place of a word that means bloom but is said the same as the word that means ground grain. All I can come up with is Flour/Flower but don’t know if those are cities lol! ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/33 "2025-01-22T18:28:06Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > New Orleans? Yep, The Big Easy. ---
**Author:** ![StringsandHammers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stringsandhammers/32/17933_2.png) [@StringsandHammers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StringsandHammers)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/34 "2025-01-22T18:29:10Z")
The Spurs ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/35 "2025-01-22T18:33:20Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > All I can come up with is Flour/Flower but don’t know if those are cities lol! You’re right so far (as nicknames, not the actual name). And it’s one city, not plural (though like most it’s swallowed some smaller ones as it grew.) ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/36 "2025-01-22T18:36:00Z")
Cow town. Calgary, AB ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/37 "2025-01-22T18:36:39Z")
::ringing in:: “What is Winchester?” ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/38 "2025-01-22T18:36:56Z")
Of course! I’m hoping for the “minimalism” award. Hmmm… Big; near Pearl; Isle. Honolulu Where Lee shot John and Jack shot Lee. Dallas ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/39 "2025-01-22T18:37:42Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > ::ringing in:: > “What is Winchester?” Yes! Great guess! Winchester Cathedral was the song I was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/40 "2025-01-22T18:39:30Z")
I know it was! I’m old enough to remember it on the radio in 1965. Also, I know my way around the northern parts of Virginia. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256.md?page=3)