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| | | (...) I have a friend from MN who visited there and calls it "glow-chester-shire" ("glow" rhyming with "plow"). :-) I think I've also heard Gloucester called "glocks-tah" and "gluss-tah." --Todd (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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| | | | | Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set) —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G0uxIx.77J@lugnet.com... (...) "glow-chester-shire" (...) Where in the world does he get -shire from?? Heck, I'm from the midwest too, and I always thought it was glow-chester. Oh well, gotta (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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| | | | | | | Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set) —Julie Krenz
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| | | | | | | Ugh!! Now that commercial jingle is running thru my head - something something something "Gloucester Fisherman". The only part I remember is "Gloucester Fisherman" and an image of an elderly, gray (light) haired & bearded man with a yellow raincoat (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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| | | | | | | Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set) —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) I didn't know the 'English' was so hard to pronounce.... Steve "exhausted my lifetime allotment of pointless LUGNET posts" Bliss (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set) —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | "Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:qop1ssgbq48urqd...4ax.com... (...) it (...) Neither did I, until I came here. (...) I guess I'm in the same boat with you Steve, according to some ;-) -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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| | | | | Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set) —Rob Doucette
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| | | | | Worcester gets butchered much more often than Gloucester ;-) Woooster, War-chester, Wuss-stah, ... -- -Rob. ===...=== New sets and parts for sale or trade: (URL) Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G0uxIx.77J@lugnet.com... (...) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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| | | | | | | Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set) —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) There's a town in Ohio pronounced the same way but actually spelled "Wooster".... (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set) —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | "Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn8s22bf.idt.....bu.edu... (...) Either way, us midwesterners get it right ;-) -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance ICQ: (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | | | | Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set) —Jonathan Reynolds
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| | | | (...) So how would you pronounce 'Slough' (For our overseas friends, this is a big Industrial town near LLW) Jon (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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| | | | | | Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) You mean like how a snake sloughs its skin? I would say "sloff" with the "o" being a short o as in pot, zot, slot, etc. --Todd (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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| | | | | | Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set) —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Or like a swampy marshy bit of creek (and metaphorically, as in "Slough of Despond")? That's a slough too, pronounced "slau". Or maybe "sloo". I think you can also slough through mud, pronounced the same way. Really, if a word ends in "ough", (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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