[rad-ner] /ˈræd nər/

a town in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.

place in eastern Wales, the name is Old English, literally “at the red bank,” from Old English read (dative singular readan; see red (n.1) + ofer “bank, slope.”


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