The AnswerMug Challenge Series, Place, Name, Action, Word Edition: besides the examples above, what are some other place names* that have a verb from the English language included in their lettering?
TOP PRIZE: You are exempt from having to make any sandwiches for me during the week that you are named the winner.
RULES
1. The place name must be the proper (as in capitalized) name of a geographic feature, to include cities, counties, provinces, states, countries, continents, land masses, regions, areas, etc. The names of businesses, organizations, stores, units, buildings, structures, streets, roads, highways, expressways, paths, pathways, trails, etc are excluded.
“Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics (from the Ancient Greek language: τόπος / tópos, 'place', and ὄνομα / onoma, 'name') is the study of toponyms, which are the proper names of places, also known as place name or geographic name), their origins and meanings, use and typology. (Toponym is the general term for a proper name of any geographical feature.”
2. The place name can be from any location on Earth (the Moon, other planets, other heavenly bodies, other planets, other natural satellites are not Earth).
3. The place name can be in any language or from any language, but the verb that you select as your answer can only be in the English language or from the English language. As such, loan words qualify.
4. Please spell out the entire place name, and please clearly stress or specify the verb that you are submitting as your answer. For instance, in the examples above, the verb is in all capital letters, and in the case of CAIRo, the verb follows the entry in parentheses to show exactly which word is being used. When posting answers and comments, underlining is available to you, as seen in this description field.
5. The verb you enter must be part of a word in a place name, but cannot be the entire word. For instance, COLORado SpRINGS qualifies because of the delineated verbs shown. Conversely, Cold SPRING HARBOR does not qualify because the last two verbs do not have other letters in them. No verbs that are single stand-alone words as part of a place name can be used.
5a. A twist on Number 5 is that double verbs in one place name give you extra bragging rights. For instance, SPRINGFIELD contains two separate verbs, so it is allowed.
6. All place names that you enter must have their first letters of each word capitalized, regardless of whether or not you’re stressing that letter as part of the verb you’re entering. The only exceptions are foreign-language words that are not capitalized according to the grammar rules of that language.
Have fun with this!
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Very, very good!
Question on one of them, though; how is “gran” a verb?
(Originally, I also questioned “bran” as a verb, but I looked it up and it qualifies perfectly.)
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Thank you for the clarification. You may have noticed that I made a provision for circumventing that kind of confusion with the example of CAIRo (air).
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Three lists - one English, one Welsh and one international:
HAVERING
BARKing
EpPING
CHATham
WOOton
BOLTon
DOFFCOCKer
ROTherham
SEVERn
GRINDon
CHOPpards
CRAVEn
SINGLEton
HeptonSTALL
STAFFord
SALTAIRe
HUMber
SPURn Point
OswesTRY
GAINsborough
BOOTh
MELTham
CARDiff
BANGor
STAYlittle
STEPaside
AberTILLery
ANGLEsey
LlanDRILLo
BAGlan
MINEra
STOCKholm
HelSINKi
KamCHATka
MaLAYsia
PANama
TaRANTo
NAPles
BuchaREST
WarSAW
Port HarCOURT
DurBAN
TANzania
QUITo
TurKEY
United Arab EmiRATEs
KuWAIT