Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peculiarities of Ohio place names 2

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It isn't really unexpected or peculiar for pronounciations of foreign place names to change when they are adopted in other languages - in fact, it's practially the norm. The nation is full of cities/towns with French, Spanish and German names that are pronounced "wrong" ... as for American Indian names, they're butchered all over the place. The same thing happens in reverse, with English words adopted in foreign-language countries. So I think much of the basis of this article is short-sighted. But maybe that's just me. - DavidWBrooks 18:40, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Well, not short-sighted, but perhaps inadequately described. I don't disagree with your main point, but it is the case that when referring to Ohio cities, the names are often inadvertently mispronounced because of it. Yeah, it happens all the time and it is a natural result of adopting words from other languages, but it seems to me that it's worth noting what the actual differences are. Acsenray 19:15, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I have long felt that Ohio is particularly prone to this sort of oddity, but in reality it's probably not any worse than any other state. More appropriate, perhaps, would be to have similar lists for all states (and, hey, other countries) or at least not to imply in this article that Ohio is unique in this regard. -[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 23:40, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This was originally an empty link. Not sure what the original link creater had in mind, so I created a stub, obviously biased by my location...--Pqdave 19:34, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The original article was deleted after being listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Peculiarities of Ohio place names for the voting. olderwiser 19:39, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)