> > New York, New Jersey, and New Hampshire have all been with us for well over two hundred years. When are they going to drop the "New" part? It isn't necessary for them to become "Old," but New? Give me a break! If any state deserves to be called new, shouldn't in be Hawaii?
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> You realise, of course, that all of York, Jersey and Hampshire are places in the United Kingdom, which is outside the entire United States of America? If the "New" places you speak of were to drop the "New" part, the names would become ambiguous. Also the keeping the "New" part is fair because they *are* newer than the places they were named after.

Yes, I thought of that. How about the ones in the UK being changed to Old York, Old Jersey, and Old Hampshire? They really are old.

We do that with highways. For example the Nashville Highway was replaced by a new four-lane that runs parallel. So the old one became "Old Nashville Pike" and the new four-lane is now the "Nashville Highway." This is a common practice here.
Howard