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Re: Latest update on the candy situation
Posted By: Howard, on host 205.184.139.81
Date: Wednesday, November 24, 1999, at 14:23:29
In Reply To: Re: Latest update on the candy situation posted by Brunnen-G on Wednesday, November 24, 1999, at 14:09:07:

> > Tra "was there ever an OLD Zealand?" nio
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> Yes, there was. Zeeland was Holland. When the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman discovered this one, he called it Nieuw Zeeland.
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> Brunnen-"we spell it wrong"G

We spell the name of our county wrong. It was named for the Earle of Loudoun and somehow it wound up without one of the u's. Loudon. I prefer the old English spelling.
Howard

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