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"A state-by-state tour of places with extraordinary names and the stories behind them. Feast on towns from Breakfast Hill, New Hampshire, to Dinner Station, Nevada. Includes local attractions for over 40 towns. Sidebars describe surprising name trends."
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Veteran magazine writer Frank K. Gallant reports that there are more than 3 million toponyms (place names) in the United States and that "more than once, I have driven an embarrassing number of miles to visit a town with an unusual name."
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- PublisherMerriam Webster
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 087779619X
- ISBN 13 9780877796190
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages276
- IllustratorRoberts Victoria
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A Place Called Peculiar : Stories about Unusual American Place-Names
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