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Re: State names
Posted By: Issachar, on host 206.138.46.252
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999, at 05:15:37
In Reply To: Re: State names posted by Darien on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at 23:21:06:

> > Why does OhiO remind me of a bicycle?
> >
> > Did you know that the original spelling of Tennessee may have been Tanasi?
> >
> > In Alabama, it's not uncommon to hear the state called Alabamer.
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> The literal translation of "Chicago," in whatever Indian dialect it came from, is "Place of the Wild Onion."

...and reportedly, somewhere in one of our northernmost mid-west states, there's a lake whose name is Chargoggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubungagungamaug, which means "You fish on your side and we'll fish on our side and no one will fish in the middle." Along with "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", that lake's name is one of my favorite words.

Iss "sesquipedalian" achar

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