Saturday, 20 June 2020

Anagram swarms: CANADIAN PLACENAMES, FUNKY yet real, versus Imaginar:y


CARTOGRAPHY involving Canadian cities, towns and hamlets - real places where Canadians live. The real names were selected from thousands of such geographic identifiers because of their funkiness, i.e. amusing nature, based on implied or speculative meaning of the shorter English (and French words) comprising the geographic identifiers. The aim was to provide a set of REAL placenames, to which Scramble-Town Maps (imaginary placename sets based on anagrams), concocted by the author, could be compared. The current post is a continuation of prior ideas, as displayed in the final slide.
 
DATA, MAPS and GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION COMPILED, and ANAGRAMS COMPOSED: by Giorgio Coniglio, June, 2017.




Selected real Canadian places














Detailed Imaginary Placenames, by province



Note that the 2-letter abbreviation must fit for a political division to be included in this wordplay; unfortunately, unless a 'B' is arbitrarily added to the mix, only the territory of Nunavut complies with this rigid rule.
The following map shows some possibilities, far-fetched though they may be. 




National Summary of Funky Names for a different 'anagram swarm'.




2 comments:

  1. Who knew what a bastion of Republicanism Newfoundland is? Quaerite prime regnum dei, amirite?

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  2. Yes. Along with BC, NL has top anagram-proclivity. Those Canadian provinces shine in this regard, rivalling only the great state of S. Carolina.

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