![]() Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina: created from the merger of Fuquay Springs and Varina.Little River-Academy, Texas: created from the merger of Little River and Academy in 1980.Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky: the official name of the merged city of Lexington and county of Fayette.Leo-Cedarville, Indiana: created by the merger of Leo and Cedarville.La Cañada Flintridge, California: created from unincorporated areas called La Cañada and Flintridge.Helena-West Helena, Arkansas: created in 2006 by the merger of the former cities of Helena and West Helena. ![]() Elko New Market, Minnesota: created in 2006 from a merger of bordering cities Elko and New Market.Dover-Foxcroft, Maine: created in 1922 by the merger of towns Dover and Foxcroft.Its Practically Against the Law to Use the Mark in a Places Name Sorry, Pikes Peakīy BARRY NEWMAN, The Wall Street Journal, posted 10:30 p.m. See: Theres a Question Mark Hanging Over the Apostrophes Future. There are now only five place names in the whole of the US that use the possessive apostrophe. Board on Geographic Names doesn't like apostrophes. News, information, piece of news, budget of news, budget of information, intelligence, tidings, word, advice, aviso, message, dispatch, despatch, telegram, cable, marconigram, wire, communication, errand, embassy, report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame, talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping, town tattle, table talk, tittle tattle, canard, topic of the day, idea afloat, bulletin, fresh news, stirring news, glad tidings, flash, news just in, on-the-spot coverage, live coverage, old story, old news, stale news, stale story, chestnut, narrator, newsmonger, scandalmonger, talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler, journalism, media, news media, the press, the information industry, newspaper, magazine, tract, journal, gazette, publication, radio, television, ticker (electronic information transmission), United Press International, UPI, Associated Press, AP, The Dow Jones News Service, DJ, The New York Times News Service, NYT, Reuters, TASS, The Nikkei, newscaster, newsman, newswoman, reporter, journalist, correspondent, foreign correspondent, special correspondent, war correspondent, news team, news department, anchorman, anchorwoman, sportscaster, weatherman, press secretary, public relations department, public relations man, many-tongued, rumored, publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported, rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town, in progress, live, on the spot, in person, as the story goes, as the story runs, as they say, it is said, by telegraph, by wireless, airy tongues that syllable men's names, what's up?, what's the latest?, what's new?, what's the latest poop?.The Domestic Names Committee of the U.S. Top ROGET THESAURUS tattler Conversation NĬonversation, interlocution, collocution, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse, oral communication, commerce, dialogue, duologue, trialogue, causerie, chat, chitchat, small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk, tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle, babble, babblement, tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit, talk of the town, talk of the village, conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler, tete-a-tete, reception, conversazione, congress, powwow, hall of audience, durbar, palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words, gossip, tattler, Paul Pry, tabby, chatterer, interlocutor, conversationist, dialogist, the feast of reason and the flow of soul, mollia tempora fandi, conversing, interlocutory, conversational, conversable, discursive, discoursive, chatty, colloquial, with thee conversing I forget all time.
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