If you’re going to tell me thats what you really meant, OK, but thats an utterly irrelevant distinction.
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I always found it funny that the Ronald Reagan State Building in Downtown Los Angeles had to change its name from the “Ronald Reagan State Office Building” because of the propensity of people to shorten long names…which led to some people calling it the “Ronald Reagan SOB”.
Nixon famously had the Committee to Re-Elect the President, but it turns out it’s easy to capitalize the E in RE-Elect.
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There is a school in Texas now called Sam Houston State Univeristy, but originally called Sam Houston Institute of Technology. I first became aware of it under its original name because someone there hosted the first TeX archive.
It is exactly what I said.
I used to attend P.M.S. when I was in school, but only for first period.
You fell for a joke.
Oh my !
I always wondered who had to tell Saddam Hussein what the initials of “Saddam Hussein International Airport” spelled out.
(He was a Sunni).
Some years ago, Calgary International Airport added a new International Departures and US Departures terminal. It was finished during the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Local comedians made much of the fact that it should be called “the Stephen Harper International Terminal.”
Actually, the new terminal doesn’t have any kind of name. It’s just part of Calgary International, made up of the the D Gates (International) and E Gates (United States).
Portland OR was originally Stumptown, as was Whitefish MT.
St Paul MN was originally Pig’s Eye.
Helena MT was originally Last Chance Gulch.
Regina SK was originally Pile of Bones.
She really was; we dated briefly. 
No it wasn’t. “Stumptown” was a nickname due to all the stumps as it was platted and built out. The original developers flipped a coin to decide on the name based on their hometowns: Portland Maine and Boston Mass. The development started after that and nickname ensued.
How is a nickname not a name? If it was what people called it, that’s its name. It wasn’t official, but that’s true of any name of an unincorporated area.
Doesn’t that mean Silver River?
Both, plate is an archaic word for silver. Silver is a better translation for modern language.
This, basically though “Siver River” is more “Rio de plata” than “Rio de la plata”, the latter is more “River of the silver”, meaning the silver they expected to find here.
I say “more” because you still can interpret “Rio de la plata” as “Silver River” if you squint a bit.
I heard the same story about Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, New Jersey, supposedly originally called Stevens-Hoboken Institute of Technology.