Ford vs Wade

Ford

name
  • A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a ford. 

  • An extinct town in Bartow County, Georgia. 

  • A small city in Ford County, Kansas. 

  • A small village at the south-west end of Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN8603). 

  • A hamlet in Dinton with Ford and Upton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP7709). 

  • A hamlet in Holbeton parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX6150). 

  • A hamlet next to Wolf's Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9526). 

  • An unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. 

  • A hamlet near Cutsdean, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0829). 

  • A small village in Northumberland (OS grid ref NT9437). 

  • A village and civil parish in Arun district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0003). 

  • A hamlet in Ford and Stoke Prior parish, south of Leominster, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO5155) 

  • A suburb of Plymouth, Devon (OS grid ref SX4656). 

  • A small village in North Wraxall parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8375). 

  • A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside (OS grid ref SJ3398). 

  • An unincorporated community in Clark County, Kentucky. 

  • A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin. 

  • A hamlet south of Ridgeway, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4080). 

  • A village and civil parish west of Shrewsbury, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ4113). 

  • An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington. 

  • A village in Laverstock parish, near Salisbury, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1533). 

noun
  • A make of car, named for Henry Ford. 

Wade

name
  • A topographic surname from Old English. 

  • A census-designated place in Jackson County, Mississippi. 

  • A town in Cumberland County, North Carolina. 

  • Two townships in Illinois, in Clinton County and Jasper County. 

  • A male given name transferred from the surname. 

  • A town in Aroostook County, Maine. 

  • A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade. 

  • An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio. 

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