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Old November 22nd 03, 06:48 AM
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On or about Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:29:39 -0800, Mary Shafer made the sensational claim that:
When they named Manteca, the word meant "butter". Word meanings shift
and now it's "lard".


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Get that song out of my head! The...POWER!!!of...LARD!
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Old November 22nd 03, 07:01 AM
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In article ,
Mary Shafer wrote:
When they named Manteca, the word meant "butter". Word meanings shift
and now it's "lard". Oh, well. Calabasas is "pumpkin" and Las Pulgas
is "The Fleas". Vacaville is "Cowtown".


One otherwise-forgettable movie took place partly in a subdivision named
"Vista del Nada".
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Old November 22nd 03, 08:59 AM
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Henry Spencer wrote:
Mary Shafer wrote:
When they named Manteca, the word meant "butter". Word meanings shift
and now it's "lard". Oh, well. Calabasas is "pumpkin" and Las Pulgas
is "The Fleas". Vacaville is "Cowtown".


One otherwise-forgettable movie took place partly in a subdivision named
"Vista del Nada"


California does not formally have different names for different
sized municipalities; everything that is formally recognized as
a local self governing municipality is a City. Names like "Town"
and such are purely unofficial.

I grew up between San Jose and San Francisco, just south of
Stanford, in a town called Los Altos (the hills).
Typically, Los Altos does not include any *actual* hills;
it goes from about halfway to the southern end of San
Francisco Bay up to the edge of the hills, but the hills
proper are another city.

The city in which the hills actually are located is named,
aptly enough:

Los Altos Hills

Even better, when it incorporated as a municipality, it had
been calling itself a Town for some time. Denied the legal
ability to get a state recognized charter as a Town and not
a City, they chose to make the following official town name:

The City of The Town of Los Altos Hills


-george william herbert


 




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