2021: sydney or sidney Jun 27, 2020

Plenty of places are named for personal names. For instance, there are two cities named Sydney, the more famous being in Australia, named after Thomas Townshend. More accurately, they were named for his title as the 1st Viscount Sydney. This elevation into nobility first came in 1603 with the barony of Robert Sidney, and all of the following barons with this personal name spelt it with an -i-, but the spelling used in the title continued with a -y-.

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