Why is picking an Old West town name so hard?

[Michi]

[thebinmann]

very nice!!!!!!!!!

[The_Beast]

Interestingly, a reference to the classical, such as Syracuse, of which there's a small town in Nebraska so named. Works best if misspelled or inappropriate, such as Eden for a town in the desert.

Other twists will come to you. I was once challenged by an easterner who took umbrage to me referring to Norfolk, NE, as 'north fork'. Claimed it should be 'nor folk'.

1) North Fork WAS the original pronunciation AND spelling, when an eastern postal official decided to change it (I'm a US liberal, but can understand a certain antipathy to DC interference),
2) having passed through the eastern US, and also hearing some Brit speakers, I'd have to say the common pronunciation is actually 'nah-fuk'. 

As a youngster, I tried to imagine our North Fork was the one in The Rifleman. Then they got around to mentioning the territory...

That twist in speaking the name can add a world of color.

Cairo? On the Mississippi, and in Nebraska, it's 'kayr-row'.

Doug

[Johan]

our old west town was called Nowhere Gulch, it had a hotel and many saloons and all the other necessary buildings like a school and church and the end of a railway + station, cattle pens and the obligatory silver mine. Nowhere Gulch was presented at Crisis 2000 something.

[pocoloco]

Back in the day my town... well village, was just plain and simple 'Hickville'. Had some buildings (store, water tower, bar/inn, mortuary...) etc made by yours truly but have none left, not even pics it seems.

Now I hope to start over at some point and name I have been toying with currently is 'Dos Cruces'. Just found out there's quite a horrific music video of the same name:

[Monk]

Monk, which Paradise was that?

It's Paradise, CA.

[Mississippi]

My town is going to be "Purgatory".
My church will be. "New Church of Deliverance".
Still working on the Saloon names.

[6mmfan]

I called my Mexican town "El Segundo" after a 80s song by Tribe called quest.



Cheers
Kieran