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Unusual place names in USA 2 – Lac qui Parle
LAC QUI PARLE, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota
French priest translated
Dakota name, lake that Speaks
Into his own tongue
Note: Dakota is a native American nation consisting primarily of Sioux living in South Western Minnesota. the tribal elders took guidance from the voices they heard from the lake.
A late edit: I should have explained that the voices heard were created by the wind across the lake which is situated in a unique geologic formation. And for sports people it’s also considered the best walleye-pike fishing lake in Minnesota.
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Obscure words explained 87. – perigree
Obscure words explained 86. – jabberwocky
JABBERWOCKY
Some writing or speech
containing meaningless words
Trump is it’s master
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A bit of Americal – Unusual place names in Ohio1. – Knockemstiff
Change of gears. Who remembers Alistair Cook’s “Letter from America” well here’ s Bristolians version in A bit of Americal. I have started with a previous theme of unusual place names. We have plenty of these in the USA.
KNOCKEMSTIFF, Ross county, Ohio
Slang term for Moonshine
illegal liquor from maize
distilled in secret
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Obscure words explained 85. – assiduity
Krek waiters peak bristle
Another departure: Some (many) years ago a book was written, I’ll find the author’ s name one of these days. which spoke about the way people from Bristol speak.
One of the curiosities of the Bristol dialect is the propensity of Bristolians to add an “l” to a final “a” in place of a glottal stop. This curious fact has led me to this post in light of the pandemic now about us; Has anybody from Bristol heard the word Coronavirus pronounced “coronalvirus?
Note: The title of this post is the aforementioned title of the book. It translates as, The correct way to speak Bristol.
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Unusual U. K. place names 83. – Nailsea
Mademoiselle Yvonne
In 1983 the tour company I worked at closed its doors. I quickly found another position with a company in Boston Massachusetts. They wanted a program manager who could reside and work in Europe without going through the necessity of applying for visas etc. They also wanted someone who was familiar with the culture etc. Since I had lived and worked in France and Germany an spoke four other languages including English Yiddish and rubbish, they hired me,
The company was headquartered in Boston. On Tremont street, there used to be a bar called Locke Ober’s. It was a popular watering hole. Incidentally just up the street was the Parker House, a long time Boston establishment hotel . It is there many years ago the once leader of North Viet-nam, Ho Chi Mihn worked as a bus-boy in the restaurant clearing tables. But I digress. At Locke Ober’s was the…
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