"A" names.

[Rain Man]

Why do so many places with names that start with the letter A also end with the letter A?

Asia
Africa
America
Albania
Australia
Austria
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arabia
Arkansas (if they could spell right)
Angola
Andorra
Armenia
Andalusia
Antigua


What's up with this? These are places that got named in different languages in different periods of history by different civilizations. Why is it so popular to pick names that end in "A" if they happen to start with "A"?

[FAX]

Apalaciacola is another one Mr. Rain Man. I think it's probably the Latin influence on the name origins. There seem to be few B to B names, though.

Bub, Maryland is the only one that comes to mind.

FAX

[hypersensitiveZO6]

Isn't there a type of lava called aa?

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

Angina

Abba

[FAX]

Hello, My name is FAX and I'm a lavaholic.

FAX

[Adept Havelock]

Appalachia

[KCChiefsMan]

deep thoughts by Rain Man

[Cormac]

Why do so many places with names that start with the letter A also end with the letter A?

Asia
Africa
America
Albania
Australia
Austria
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arabia
Arkansas (if they could spell right)
Angola
Andorra
Armenia
Andalusia
Antigua


What's up with this? These are places that got named in different languages in different periods of history by different civilizations. Why is it so popular to pick names that end in "A" if they happen to start with "A"?

This has always bothered me, too.

[Tribal Warfare]

no respect for Argentina??????

[chiefsfaninNC]

no respect for Argentina??????


There has been a great loss of respect with Diego Maradona all over the damn TV lately. Very understandable.

[pr_capone]

Aguadilla
Aguada

Both towns in Puerto Rico

[Adept Havelock]

no respect for Argentina??????

Don't cry for me.....

[Calcountry]

ATHLETICS! A stands for ATHLETICS!!

[plbrdude]

obviously, i do not have enough free time on my hands.

[SNR]

Don't forget the great Canadian province of Alberta

[SNR]

Isn't there a type of lava called aa?Yes. The Hawaiian alphabet only contains 13 letters, so they were bound to have one or two words like that.

I imagine if we had the word "Aa" in English, it would like something like "Ahough" with a bunch of silent letters and crap. The Hawaiian language spells its words with as little letters as possible... very efficient.

[Rain Man]

Antarctica
Ankara
Alsatia
Algeria
Accra
Addis Ababa
Aruba
Alexandria
Assyria
Aqaba
Asmara
Atlanta

[65 to Bust]

Common crossword answer for Ozarks town name.

Ava

[Moooo]

Common crossword answer for Ozarks town name.

Ava

That's about 30 minutes north of where I spent my teenage days!!!

Moooo

[65 to Bust]

Never been there. What's it like?

[Moooo]

Never been there. What's it like?

It has a stoplight. About 2,000 people. It used to be (I don't know if it still is) the place where all of the actual MLB golden gloves were made, along with the baseballs (at the Rawlings plant).

ALso, it is the home of the National Foxtrotter association (if you don't know, a Foxtrotter is a gaited horse kin to the Tennessee Walker).

Moooo

[Ari Chi3fs]

Apalaciacola is another one Mr. Rain Man. I think it's probably the Latin influence on the name origins. There seem to be few B to B names, though.

Bub, Maryland is the only one that comes to mind.

FAX

A very nice play to be, is between BooBs.

Just Sayin,

Mr. Ari Chi3fs

[Moooo]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the "a" at the end isn't a characteristic of only places that start with "a" also. I think the ending of "a" is just common no matter what the beginning letter is.

Just as a reference, 21 states end with the letter "a"

Moooo

[65 to Bust]

Moooo

Interesting stuff. I did not know that. A stop light and 2,000 people? Screw that. I ain't going there.

[Calcountry]

A stands for Ass. The Texas Rangers just got bent over in San Francisco. I bet the ump smiled as he put it in.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Arkansas (if they could spell right)






Everytime I read something absolutely hilarious someone comes bounding along and raises the bar. This is the line of the day easily.

[greg63]

Alpha and Omega

[stevieray]

girls names too..

amanda
ariana
alicia
adriana
alyssa