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Lorbaat wrote:
> In lugnet.loc.us.ma, Dave Schuler writes:
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> > Yowza! I'd heard of that place but I never knew if it was real. Not only
> > is it a sesquipedalian monstrosity, but it has 17 g's! Did you type it from
> > memory or did you have to look it up?
>
> Heh. I used to be able to do it from memory, but this time I looked it up to
> be completely sure of the spelling.
>
> I do know what it *means* off the top of my head, though (which is something I
> forgot to mention in the footnote to my last post).
Those of us from surrounding towns call it Web-duh Lake :-)
And for those wondering what it means, it means: "You fish on your side of the
lake, I'll fish on mine, and nobody fishes in the middle" (yes I'm serious).
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> > I don't know any off the top of my head, but I know that in Wales, where
> > vowels are apparently at a premium, there are some stupendous placenames, too.
>
> True dat. But this is in Massachusetts. :D
>
> eric
Mike Z.
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| (...) Are you sure you're not just mis-hearing the natives? My dad grew up in Oxford (we still have a house up there in my family) and he refers to Webter as "webstah". It should be noted that my father doesn't really bear that bad of a Mass accent, (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) From the Nov. 2000 Fortean Times (a true bastion of responsible journalism): "TONGUE-TWISTER: A referendum has been held over changing the name of Lake Chargoggagogmanchaug...ungamaugg, near Boston, after people got fed up trying to pronounce (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Heh. I used to be able to do it from memory, but this time I looked it up to be completely sure of the spelling. I do know what it *means* off the top of my head, though (which is something I forgot to mention in the footnote to my last post). (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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