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<blockquote data-quote="MechaPilot" data-source="post: 7262361" data-attributes="member: 82779"><p>People have a tendency of building towns in certain places, and naming them in certain ways. Let's look at some real world town names:</p><p></p><p>Newport</p><p>Portsmouth</p><p>Nashville</p><p>Beverly Hills</p><p>Oxford</p><p>New York</p><p>Jamestown</p><p>Yorkshire</p><p></p><p>We can see a few things here that can easily be patterns in naming.</p><p></p><p>A town in or near hills might be named "_____ Hills."</p><p>A town might be named for a founder or a noble starting with the name in the possessive form "_____'stown."</p><p>A town might be named "_____port" if it's a coastal town.</p><p>A town might be named "_____mouth" if it sits at the mouth of a river (or other geographical feature).</p><p>"Town" comes from "ton" meaning a walled settlement, so any town could be "_____town" or "_____ton."</p><p>"Ville" actually means town, so you could also name nearly any town "_____ville."</p><p>"Ford" is another common town ending, likely referring to a place where a river would be forded, so a town near a river could be "_____ford."</p><p></p><p>If you really want to go the extra mile, you could come up with in-world words that mean hills, port, mouth, town, ford, etc. and apply those made-up words using the real-world patterns described above.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MechaPilot, post: 7262361, member: 82779"] People have a tendency of building towns in certain places, and naming them in certain ways. Let's look at some real world town names: Newport Portsmouth Nashville Beverly Hills Oxford New York Jamestown Yorkshire We can see a few things here that can easily be patterns in naming. A town in or near hills might be named "_____ Hills." A town might be named for a founder or a noble starting with the name in the possessive form "_____'stown." A town might be named "_____port" if it's a coastal town. A town might be named "_____mouth" if it sits at the mouth of a river (or other geographical feature). "Town" comes from "ton" meaning a walled settlement, so any town could be "_____town" or "_____ton." "Ville" actually means town, so you could also name nearly any town "_____ville." "Ford" is another common town ending, likely referring to a place where a river would be forded, so a town near a river could be "_____ford." If you really want to go the extra mile, you could come up with in-world words that mean hills, port, mouth, town, ford, etc. and apply those made-up words using the real-world patterns described above. [/QUOTE]
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