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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > The Origin of Certain Place Names In the United States
 
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Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

Knormal posted:


Anything ending in -cester is usually the English name of an old Roman fort (castrum in Latin), so yeah it's a pretty safe bet it's named after Worcester England, which itself will be a corruption of "West Fort" or something.

Also there are a lot of East Coast towns ending in -minster which is based off of the Old English word for church.

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