7x6andchg: Well, DMW -

As for Paris, TX (and KY, too, I believe), we may not be at war with the French as we were with Germany in WWII, but there is a town here in Wisconsin that is pronounced "New BER-lin" solely because it USED to sound like the town in Germany..... and that's also why we call them "hot dogs" - the word was the primary replacement for frankfurter.