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RangerSteve | BS: The oddest named city of them all... (84* d) | RE: BS: The oddest named city of them all... | 27 Sep 11 |
You can credit the British for the name "Flushing". It was originally a Dutch settlement called Vlissingen. When the Brits took over the area, they anglicized a lot of the Dutch names, applying English words that sounded like the original Dutch. |