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Re: CHAT: silly names

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Friday, March 16, 2001, 3:45
Nik Taylor scripsit:

> > But now I find that in Massachusetts, some miles south, we have Lake > > Chargoggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaugg, locally pronounced > > ['wEpsta]. Take *that*. > > ['wEpsta] = Webster? I'm guessing that it used to be called Lake > Webster, but then they decided to change it to honor the Native American > tribe who was there before, but people kept using the old name.
Exactly. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter