# Where would you be posting from if they'd kept the original name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 7, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071 "2004-05-07T20:45:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/1 "2004-05-07T20:45:09Z")
I’m posting from **Duwamps** , biggest city in the state of Washington. You? ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/2 "2004-05-07T21:19:23Z")
The capital of Alabama - **Ikanatchati** ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/3 "2004-05-07T21:20:49Z")
Why, Ellan Vannin of course. The city of Doolish. (Douglas) ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/4 "2004-05-07T21:21:40Z")
Cowford is just to the north (Jacksonville) - I think Orange Park has always been Orange Park. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/5 "2004-05-07T21:30:48Z")
Laurieville. I know that will come as a shock to many people who view my “location” tag. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/6 "2004-05-07T21:32:20Z")
Just outside Pig’s Eye, Minnesota. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/7 "2004-05-07T21:45:06Z")
Slocum Hollow, Pennsylvania. ---
**Author:** ![Spurious\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Spurious\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spurious_George)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/8 "2004-05-07T21:46:28Z")
Like many Doper _hombres y chicas_, I am posting from _El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula_ (The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula). That’s in the northern part of Mexico, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/9 "2004-05-07T21:50:54Z")
[Pacific City, California.](http://www.hbsurfcity.com/history/history1.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/10 "2004-05-07T22:03:34Z")
Well, in 1650, it was an Indian camp referred to as “Eydlughet” or “Ikluat”. At various points it was also call ‘Ship Creek’, and when it came time to settle on a name, the residents wanted “Alaska City”. But the damn gubmint insisted on Anchorage. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/11 "2004-05-07T22:24:23Z")
Glasgow, or Glaschu, I suppose. I do think “Duwamps” is a cute name though. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/12 "2004-05-07T22:33:17Z")
Named San Miguel by a Spanish guy, then renamed San Diego de Alcala by a different Spanish guy. Actually, the San Dieguito and various other Indians had first crack at it, but I couldn’t find out what they called it. Probably “Here.” ---
**Author:** ![caymus28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@caymus28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caymus28)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/13 "2004-05-07T22:36:16Z")
Losantiville, OH (or some might even say porkopolis, it’s original nickname). ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/14 "2004-05-07T22:56:59Z")
Mansfield, Vermont ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/15 "2004-05-07T23:12:28Z")
It might’ve been Harrisburg, if Santa Ana hadn’t burned it to the ground, allowing the Allen brothers little settlement upstream to prevail. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/16 "2004-05-07T23:16:29Z")
I’d be posting from [Denver](http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/north_america/denver/history.htm) > [@](#): > > Already the bison-hunting grounds of Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians when (mostly luckless) prospectors began arriving in 1859, Denver began its days as little more than a rough-and-tumble gold miners’ camp. In an effort to polish the area’s image (and bolster his coffers in the process), General William H Larimer shamelessly wooed Kansas Territorial Governor James W Denver into granting Larimer and his partners a township by proposing to name it in the governor’s honor. Larimer’s bootlicking worked, and the Denver City Township Company set up shop in late 1859 at the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/17 "2004-05-07T23:30:42Z")
Ville-Marie, or if you go back farther in time, Hochelaga ---
**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:** [May 7, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/18 "2004-05-07T23:30:49Z")
I was going to say **Londinium** , but technically I live in the **North Wood** (which, perversely, is in south Londinium). ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/19 "2004-05-07T23:51:14Z")
\*\*Lutetia \*\*, here ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071/20 "2004-05-07T23:54:50Z")
The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Woden Brugge [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-be-posting-from-if-theyd-kept-the-original-name/244071.md?page=2)