Re: CHAT: silly names
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 18, 2001, 3:15 |
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On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 12:18:02PM +1100, D Tse wrote:
> >
> > And the urge to change names to attract tourists was not confined to 19th
> > cent. Wales. In England the seaside resort hitherto known simply as
> > "Weston-on-Sea" became, and still remains, "Weston-super-mare" (tho, alas,
> > the last word is pronounced as tho it were a female horse!)
>
> A female horse with superpowers!
And would "super mare" even mean "near the sea" in Latin? I don't know much
(classical) Latin, but in my mind it conjures up images of a town floating
on the water ;)
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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo