Re: CHAT: silly names
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 16, 2001, 3:18 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> 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.
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