Hi all!<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/13/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pierre Abbat</b> <<a href="mailto:phma@phma.hn.org">phma@phma.hn.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>I googled "esquivalience" and found a Wikipedia page about deleting the<br>article, which led me to [[Nihilartikel]], which has the terms "trap street"
<br>and "mountweazel". However, when I've seen such a thing on a map, it wasn't a<br>street. There was a map of Ohio with both Circleville and Scircleville, and I<br>guess one was a mountweazel.</blockquote>
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<div>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?</div>
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<div>(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...)
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<div>--James</div><br> </div>