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Not just that but, speaking as a Brit, Oxford is NOT in Ohio.

Its not?

Didn't some theoretical physicist go to some college o'er there?

Just asking that question causes uncertainty...

Yep, best avoided on principle

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Originally Posted by FunkyDexter

Not just that but, speaking as a Brit, Oxford is NOT in Ohio.

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Oxford, Ohio
London, Ohio
Portsmouth, Ohio
Andover, Ohio
Plymouth, Ohio
Bristol, Ohio
Brentwood, Ohio
Winchester, Ohio
Newport, Ohio
Manchester, Ohio
Sheffield, Ohio
Mansfield, Ohio

And probably a whole bunch more...

Oxford Oregon. Named after the ox that went wading.
Gooseneck Oregon. necking capital of the NorthWest.
Boring Oregon. Well....

Oxford OH is probably about as pretentious as Oxford Ol' England. Nice town, though.

I have a commentary about some towns across the border in Indiana, but it's an auditory story that doesn't work well written. Basically, I realized that I couldn't talk about either Milan or Versailles, because the locals pronounced those words so differently that they didn't even know where I was talking about.

I never cared for Lima Peru. After all it's where the beans come from right?

I lived in Jeffersonville, IN after Hurricane Rita. I remember going on a boy scout trip with the troop up there and getting hammered right before a hunted house attraction.

You only find hunted house while house hunting.

Sweet potato head Popeye says. "I yam what I yam."

Sweet potatoes? Yuk yuk yuk.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

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Oxford, Ohio
London, Ohio
Portsmouth, Ohio
Andover, Ohio
Plymouth, Ohio
Bristol, Ohio
Brentwood, Ohio
Winchester, Ohio
Newport, Ohio
Manchester, Ohio
Sheffield, Ohio
Mansfield, Ohio

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Wow talk about name theft on a grand scale!, everyone of those places is a place in the UK (although i had to look up Andover as its some tiny place no-one has ever heard of)

At least New Orleans, New York and New Jersey had the decency to put "New" at the beginning of there names :)

Andover's just up the road from me. I used to contract for the MOD at the army HQ there. Decent place to work. Socialising... not so much.

okay okay some tiny place only FD has ever heard of ( happy now ;))

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Decent place to work. Socialising... not so much.

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I went to University in Sheffield and i could say the exact opposite, great place to socialise, but no jobs !!

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Originally Posted by NeedSomeAnswers

Wow talk about name theft on a grand scale!, everyone of those places is a place in the UK (although i had to look up Andover as its some tiny place no-one has ever heard of)

At least New Orleans, New York and New Jersey had the decency to put "New" at the beginning of there names :)

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Wasn't it the less then creative British settlers that picked those boring names?

I live in Connecticut - a native American word celebrating Long Island sound...

[edit] I guess the middle of Ohio doesn't have all that much to celebrate - corn is corn is corn... [/edit]

Jay Leno came from Andover, Mass...

Best roast beef sandwiches can be found in North Andover...

Which like most Mass words have odd pronunciations - it's "Nor-thand'-over".

Worchester is "Woossss-ter"...

How do you Brits pronounce the place name Worchester?

I was born in Queens, NY - I'm not even sure what Queen was Queen when that was named...