Please note that your comment that What you are saying is that YOU have never heard of Exeter This is your problem Perhaps you should read  and enlighten yourself Whatever my point remains that the word Exeter is most associated with Exeter in Britain and this is the convention is more insulting than my characterizing a tiny place of  as a jerkwater town which it is I know more about British geography than  of Americans  I remember in an online chat with some guy from Sheffield that he was surprised that I knew Sheffield was a city as I was the first American hed spoken to who had even heard of it I think you should enlighten yourself You referred to a Google search that found most of the links to the name Exeter referring to the city in the UK What proportion of those were from sites in the UK If you can find even one site anywhere that is put up by someone outside the UK that uses Exeter unqualified to refer to the one in England and does not preface that with some reference to England Britain or the UK to make it clear that hes talking about UK places I would like to see it     July