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Blackletterdragon t1_j28stlm wrote

Taos? NM?

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crash180 t1_j291uf0 wrote

Taos = City

NM = The state of New Mexico in the United States of America

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Blackletterdragon t1_j2976sf wrote

Cheers. I see some of your State names are as uninventive as ours. 🇦🇺

Actually, I should have recognised it from the words of a song:

"And away I did ride,

Just as fast as I

Could from the West Texas town of El Paso

Out to the bad-lands of New Mexico."

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crash180 t1_j2cdbb7 wrote

Wow! I have not heard that song before. I sung it in my head nevertheless as I was reading it.

My kids think it is funny when I do that to books I am reading to them, where they do not specify it is a song, and I break out a ballad of the words I am reading. Those words are supposed to be a song. Fun times.

Regarding the uninvintive names for States, this applies to City names as well. I cannot think of an odd one right now. However, they are out there.

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