[PW] ? Town Voronezh in US
T. F. Mills
phasco at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 5 11:11:38 PST 2008
On 5 Mar 2008 at 15:19, Ulrich, Paul wrote:
> I have a query from someone living in Voronezh in Russia who is looking
> for information about a town, community in the US with the same name. I
> have been unable to find any location in the US which resembles this
> spelling. There are variant spellings for the Russian town: Woronezh,
> Voronesh, Woronesh, Voronetz, Yoronetz. On none of these spellings have
> I found a location in the US. I have a gut feeling that the town he is
> looking for "sounds like" the name of this town but may look totally
> different (a typical "oranges and peaches" situation).
Perhaps the person is not looking for a "sounds like", but rather the "sister" or "twin" US city,
which is Charlotte, North Carolina. The twin German city is Wesermarsch.
T.F. Mills (Colorado, USA)
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