View Single Post
  #1  
Old June 20th 08, 05:45 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jim Logajan
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,958
Default 'twas a day when the world was shut....

Stealth Pilot wrote:
...but dont worry about it. we're not bothered that you pinch
Australian town names.


Them's fightn' words! ;-)

Walla Walla Washington was named for a native north American tribe, not
after the coincidentally named Aussie town in NSW, as evidenced by this
Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walla_Walla_%28tribe%29