Sandy Hook
English
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Etymology
[edit]The name of the spit on the coast of New Jersey is a proprialization from sandy hook. The names of the other places may be similar proprializations (in some cases), namesakes of another so-named place (in other cases), or otherwise.
Proper noun
[edit]- A spit (landform) on the coast of New Jersey, United States.
- A village in Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
- (metonymic) The school shooting that took place there on December 14, 2012.
- 2022 August 25, Elizabeth Williamson, “Alex Jones Accused of Hiding Assets From Sandy Hook Families”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 2 September 2022:
- The debt is fictional, the families’ lawyers said in Thursday’s filing, and “a centerpiece of Jones’s plan to avoid compensating the Sandy Hook families.”
- (metonymic) The school shooting that took place there on December 14, 2012.
- An unincorporated community in Daviess County, Indiana, United States.
- A small city, the county seat of Elliott County, Kentucky, United States.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Maryland, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Marion County, Mississippi, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Moniteau County, Missouri, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Goochland County, Virginia, United States.
- A census-designated place in Grant County, Wisconsin, United States.
- A neighbourhood of Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada.
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- en:Places in New Jersey, USA
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- en:Unincorporated communities in Mississippi, USA
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- en:Unincorporated communities in Missouri, USA
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- en:Unincorporated communities in Virginia, USA
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- en:Census-designated places in Wisconsin, USA
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- en:Neighbourhoods in British Columbia, Canada
- en:Places in British Columbia, Canada
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