[Tagging] "No abbreviations in names" edge case

[Florian Schäfer]

What about the homepage of the city [1]? There it says that "The actual
name comes from the fact that our town site on a strip of Cherokee land
famous for the Oklahoma Land Run. The name stands for *Indian Exchange
Land*".

Cheers,
Florian

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20140618122535/http://visitixlok.com/welcome


Am 18.06.2014 06:40, schrieb Paul Johnson:
> Am I to assume that if nobody actually can remember what an
> abbreviation means, it's appropriate to go with it anyway?  Example:
>  I. X. L., Okfuskee County, Oklahoma:  I can't find an expansion of
> this town's name, and suffice to say the town's population is small
> enough with a high enough turnover that it's not something that can be
> readily determined by asking around.  Closest I've come to expanding
> it is regional lore that it's the initials of a wildcatting company,
> or a portmanteu of the initials of the town's founders, though I've
> yet to be able to substantiate either etymology.  I strongly suspect
> that whatever IXL originally stood for is completely beyond long
> forgotten at this point, so, safe to give up
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