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Re:The FT's chief executive on AI, "loyalist" readers, and i... by Tomte on Sunday March 10, 2024 @03:08PM (#39661665)
> I'm sure there's a Milton Keynes.

I‘ve watched the series, and had no idea there‘s a city of that name!

How… why does it look like a given name and family name?

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Re:The FT's chief executive on AI, "loyalist" readers, and i... by pja on Sunday March 10, 2024 @03:43PM (#39662000)
Weirdly, the village the town was built around had that name originally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleton,_Milton_Keynes

Milton is a contraction of Middleton & Keynes was from the Norman de Cahaines family. There are a few other X Keynes dotted around the UK, all presumably on lands gifted to the de Cahaines family after the Norman conquest.

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Re:The FT's chief executive on AI, "loyalist" readers, and i... by jjgreen on Sunday March 10, 2024 @03:15PM (#39661724)
It's not a city in the conventional sense, more a collection of roundabouts without a soul. Never try to hitch-hike near Milton Keynes.
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