{"id":545,"date":"2009-10-08T14:12:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T19:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=545"},"modified":"2019-12-05T09:53:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T14:53:52","slug":"bill-ville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Bill Ville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After discovering the amusing French dialect <strong>Chiac,<\/strong> <em>un langage anglo-fran\u00e7ais du Canada<\/em>, I thought it would be funny to imagine how Williamsport would change if the city were ever conquered by the French. This should freak out the local xenophobes!<\/p>\n<p>The obvious name for Billtown in French would be <em>Bill Ville<\/em>. It has a nice ring to it! The Williamsport Sun-Gazette would be renamed <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sungazette.com\/\">Le journal de Soleil<\/a><\/em>. I made that a link to their web site to mess with their heads.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bill Ville est une petite ville en Pennsylvanie, la principale ville de la r\u00e9gion m\u00e9tropolitaine de Williamsport.<\/em> Pennsylvania is spelled with an <strong>e <\/strong>at the end in French. Lycoming County becomes <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comt%C3%A9_de_Lycoming\">Comt\u00e9 de Lycoming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Ville has many neighborhoods;<em> le NouvelleBaie arrondissement, le Vue de Jardin arrondissement, et le Rang de Millionnaire arrondissement. J&#8217;habite au Vue de Jardin arrondissement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bill Ville a deux coll\u00e8ges; <em>\u00c9cole de Pennsylvanie de Technologie et \u00c9cole de Comt\u00e9 de Lycoming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>La <strong>Hiawatha<\/strong> est un bateau-mouche sur la Branche Ouest Fleuve de Susquehanna.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Little League Baseball would be replaced by soccer and becomes <em>la petite \u00e9quipe de football<\/em>. And the James V. Brown Library changes its name to <em>James V. Biblioth\u00e8que Marron<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The French WikiPedia site should update their article on Williamsport with this information. <a title=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Accueil\" href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Accueil\">http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Accueil<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After discovering the amusing French dialect Chiac, un langage anglo-fran\u00e7ais du Canada, I thought it would be funny to imagine how Williamsport would change if the city were ever conquered by the French. This should freak out the local xenophobes! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=545\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[388,390,389,391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}