Hmm... Washida is already a Japanese surname, which might cause confusion. If you'd really like to dissociate your area from Florida, all I can offer is going further northwest: Alaskida or Floraska. But then to be consistent we'd have to take Hawaii into account, and it doesn't play well with such an Anglo-Saxon name as Maine! Ha...maine? Hawaiine? Mawaii?
Hey, that last one actually doesn't sound half bad! ...oh wait, it's a lotion brand. On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 5:18 PM Aaron Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2020-07-23 4:28 pm, Owen Lamb wrote: > > (It starts to get confusing to keep track of diagonal directions after > > a > > while, so for the sake of clarity, I'll be talking about diamonds with > > thick NE and SW sides as Calimaine, and those with thick NW and SE > > sides as > > Florington, after the states roughly in the corresponding corners of > > the > > continental U.S. A bit fanciful, but the portmanteaus are easier to > > distinguish than jumbles of capital letters.) > > Hmm... "Calimaine" sounds like a lotion. > > But why not "Washida"? While we have our problems up here in the > Pacific Northwest, I am mildly displeased at having to be associated > with Florida in the first place and more so with them getting top > billing. :P > > (For the record, I am a Washingtonian who lived in Florida for several > years, so I have experience with both states, notwithstanding a > childhood spent in Kansas, Misery [sic], and briefly New Jersey. There > are few US stereotypes I have not yet had to contend with.) > > > -- Aaron Hill > >
