Locations in the United States with an English name Locations in the United States with an English name A large number of places in the U.S were named after places in England largely as a result of English settlers and explorers of the Thirteen Colonies. Some names were carried over directly and are found throughout the country (such as Manchester, Birmingham and Rochester). Others carry the prefix "New"; for example, the largest city in the US, New York, was named after York because King Charles II gave the land to his brother, James, the Duke of York (later James II). Some places, such as Hartford, Connecticut, bear an archaic
New York City English the (moribund) coil–curl merger, raising of to , a similar split in the short-"a" system, and "th"-stopping. Therefore, older New York City English also presumably influenced dialect evolution in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Albany, New York, whose older speakers in particular may still exhibit a short-"a" split system that appears to be an expanded or generalized variant of the New York City short-"a" system. Unsurprisingly, certain New York City dialect features also appear in New York Latino English. Though William Labov argued in 2010 that the New York accent is basically stable at the moment, some recent studies have revealed a