# I need a name for a city of merpeople. Thoughts?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 22, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-a-city-of-merpeople-thoughts/565112 "2010-12-22T20:13:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![FuzzyOgre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@FuzzyOgre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuzzyOgre)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2010, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-a-city-of-merpeople-thoughts/565112/61 "2010-12-26T07:28:54Z")

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I dont know, but you could have an aquatic road called the nautilbahn, but you have to be swimming quite fast when you enter the submerge.

If the city is enclosed by a large bi-valve you could call it shell-ter.

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**Author:** ![FuzzyOgre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@FuzzyOgre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuzzyOgre)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2010, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-a-city-of-merpeople-thoughts/565112/62 "2010-12-26T07:35:03Z")

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> [@Evil\_Captor](#):
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> No, no. Glug. Then all the little cities around it would comprise the Glug Archipelago.
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> Also, Langerhans, located i the Islets of Langerhans.

OP could have a tax collector that moonlights as a buccaneer. Call him Pontius Pirate.

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**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-a-city-of-merpeople-thoughts/565112/63 "2010-12-27T19:53:48Z")

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First thing that came to mind for a city of mermen - Ethel.

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-name-for-a-city-of-merpeople-thoughts/565112/64 "2010-12-27T20:16:00Z")

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Balthasar, after the original myrrh-man.

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