[thechat] Data quality heaven...

[Martin Burns]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Madhu Menon wrote:

> At 11:26 PM 28-09-02, Martin Burns wrote:
> > > ah, Los Angeles!
> >
> >Which, IIRC, has a *longass* full name...
>
> Apparently, it was originally named:
>
> El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora Reina de Los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula
> (The Town of Our Lady Queen of the Angels of the River Porciúncula)
>
> Quite a mouthful indeed. ;)

Yup, and making it the winner in the 'most contracted city name' (ie from
the above 62 chars down to 2) category.

Cheers
Martin

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