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Originally Posted by PhillyRising
There are plenty of Ville's in Pennsylvania. They are usually smaller towns. Phoenixville, Gilbertsville, Montgomeryville and Collegeville in the Western Philly suburbs to name a few.
Millersville University outside of Lancaster goes by The Ville as a nickname.
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Yeah, Pennsylvania, like most states has a ton of -villes... with most of them being towns/suburbs, not bigger/well known cities.
In the region of we’re talking about, most of the larger/most prominent cities are -villes. Nowhere else has that. It can’t just be a random phenomenon.