Why do so many fantasy and sci fi names for people and places end with -or? Do other languages have something like this?

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@ZachWeinersmith The only real one I can think of off the top of my head is "Bangor", which I know of in Maine, but there are apparently more of them.

That said, I have a totally unsupported hypothesis that it may have roots in Indian / middle eastern names, which cemented themselves as "foreign sounding" names for the English language sometime between the crusades and the era of the East India Company.

A quick look at Google Maps does appear to show many names ending in "<vowel>r" in those regions.

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