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[James Kushner]

Hi all!

On 9/13/05, Pierre Abbat <phma at phma.hn.org> wrote: 
> 
> 
> I googled "esquivalience" and found a Wikipedia page about deleting the
> article, which led me to [[Nihilartikel]], which has the terms "trap 
> street"
> and "mountweazel". However, when I've seen such a thing on a map, it 
> wasn't a
> street. There was a map of Ohio with both Circleville and Scircleville, 
> and I
> guess one was a mountweazel.

 Funny that you mentioned Ohio... Nova and I once (in 1991) spent a good 
hour or so driving around southwestern Ohio looking for a town called 
Knockemstiff. It's in the Rand-McNally road atlas, in Ross County, about six 
or seven miles southwest of Chillicothe. It's on other maps, too; Mapquest 
shows it, and there are other references to it on the web now. However, no 
one we encountered in the area had ever heard of it, and it has no listing 
in the U.S. Census. Is this a mountweazel of long standing, or just a real 
(albeit obscure) place with a funny name?
 (It wouldn't surprise me if it were a phony; Ohio and Michigan maps are 
often ripe with mountweazels, as cartographers tweak each other over their 
football rivalry. One Michigan map listed towns called Goblu and Beatosu. I 
believe this map was reprinted in Mark Monmonier's _How to Lie with Maps_, 
which I really must get a copy of...)
 --James
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