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[David Stockhoff]

  Of course, Philly is not the only Philadelphia, historically. The 
Greeks had a few.

However, it doesn't seem quite on a par with the others ... it ought to 
be a literary reference, not a real one. That would be my guess.

OTOH, it's a lot like "the land of the Neighbors."

On 9/5/2010 9:01 PM, Mr Thalassocrat wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:32 AM, <entonio at gmail.com 
> <mailto:entonio at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     No dia 2010/09/05, às 20:42, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com
>     <mailto:severiansola at hotmail.com>> escreveu:
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>             "It is possible that our home was named Atlantis or Mu--or
>             Gondwanaland, Africa,
>             Poictesme or the Country of Friends.
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>         Not sure about Country of Friends
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>     Possibly Cymru._______________________________________________ 
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> Or "Philly" at a stretch, by association with "philai" = "friends". 
> (Now that I write it down, vaguely remember somebody else suggesting 
> that sometime in the deep past.)
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