# Ubiquitous introductory thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubiquitous-introductory-thread/595601
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 8, 2011, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubiquitous-introductory-thread/595601 "2011-09-08T10:02:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubiquitous-introductory-thread/595601/21 "2011-09-08T21:43:21Z")
I thought York was in Pennsylvania…
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### Author:  [@pitcairnpete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pitcairnpete)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubiquitous-introductory-thread/595601/22 "2011-09-08T21:54:05Z")
I mean York in England, before old man penn went off on one.
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### Author:  [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubiquitous-introductory-thread/595601/23 "2011-09-08T22:26:21Z")
> [@pitcairnpete](#):
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> To many of the news that exist, the olds are around here somewhere… Generally up north, if I was living up there though, I would probably venture out upon yonder with a 1/3 chance of dying of dysentry and still feel I got out light.
Oy! (I know my location says London but I’m from the north. Consider your remarks automatically objected to, and continue.)
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### Author:  [@pitcairnpete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pitcairnpete)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubiquitous-introductory-thread/595601/24 "2011-09-08T22:31:04Z")
> [@Teacake](#):
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> Oy! (I know my location says London but I’m from the north. Consider your remarks automatically objected to, and continue.)
Errr. My best friends are northerners… Honest!!!
Jokes aside. I venture up to york and whitby quite a bit. Excuse caps… Iphone you see. Where do you hail from?
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### Author:  [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubiquitous-introductory-thread/595601/25 "2011-09-08T23:24:44Z")
Hi from the Andtipodes.
I’m a born & bred Kiwi, but often get mistaken for a Brit. I got no dog in the regional infighting up there, my family hails from Glasgow so we could take the lot of you soft southerners.
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### Author:  [@pitcairnpete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pitcairnpete)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubiquitous-introductory-thread/595601/26 "2011-09-09T00:33:03Z")
> [@maggenpye](#):
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> Hi from the Andtipodes.
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> I’m a born & bred Kiwi, but often get mistaken for a Brit. I got no dog in the regional infighting up there, my family hails from Glasgow so we could take the lot of you soft southerners.
If only I had a history degree for this anglo/alba situation.
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### Author:  [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubiquitous-introductory-thread/595601/27 "2011-09-09T00:49:52Z")
> [@pitcairnpete](#):
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> If only I had a history degree for this anglo/alba situation.
Just start a thread in general questions.
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### Author:  [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubiquitous-introductory-thread/595601/28 "2011-09-09T01:34:21Z")
> [@pitcairnpete](#):
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> I was then making a link that many of the names of New (insert location) come from corresponding places in the north of england (minus the new naturally)
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> This falls down on things like New Hampshire, it was never going to bare great scrutiny was it.
Another oddity is New Brunswick, named after the city in Germany. So that one is really and truly “south of England”.
We have an Aberdeen here in Maryland. No idea whether it resembles its namesake in any way. Also, the state is itself named for an English queen — Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I. (_Henriettaland_ didn’t test well though, so they went with her other name.)
Oh, and welcome to the board of course.
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