Re:Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your...
by zh3 on Saturday September 14, 2024 @04:54PM
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'Ville' translates as "town" so "Green Town" :)
Similiarly in the UK 'Downs' is an old english word for hill so I'm always amused by a local 'Highdown Hill' ("HighHill Hill").
Re:Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your...
by brudgers on Saturday September 14, 2024 @06:44PM
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“Las Vegas” means the meadows. The Spanish were usually pragmatic when naming locations on their maps, e.g. Del Rio, El Paso (de Norte), and Presidio in Texas; Salida, La Junta, and Pueblo in Colorado; the Sierra Nevada in California; and El Camino Real’s everywhere.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville
There's even more than one "Las Vegas".