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hhh · 2020-07-12 23:32:12

I'm from Massachusetts, and I can confirm that Braintree is a town. Other weird township names in Mass include Athol (Asshole?) and Dracut (Dracula?) And of course, Worcester. In Mass, we pronouce it "Woos-tah". Pahty wicked hahd in Woos-tah!

https://i.postimg.cc/9fysxCzW/Screensho … -27-30.png

DeepDayze · 2020-07-12 23:40:31

hhh wrote:

I'm from Massachusetts, and I can confirm that Braintree is a town. Other weird township names in Mass include Athol (Asshole?) and Dracut (Dracula?) And of course, Worcester. In Mass, we pronouce it "Woos-tah". Pahty wicked hahd in Woos-tah!
https://i.postimg.cc/B8QhbWxy/Screenshot-2020-07-12-19-27-30.png
https://i.postimg.cc/9fysxCzW/Screensho … -27-30.png

And I am in the Granite State, right above you!

damo · 2020-07-12 23:57:32

Seriously O/T...

hhh wrote:

I'm from Massachusetts, and I can confirm that Braintree is a town. Other weird township names in Mass include Athol (Asshole?) and Dracut (Dracula?) And of course, Worcester. In Mass, we pronouce it "Woos-tah". Pahty wicked hahd in Woos-tah!
https://i.postimg.cc/B8QhbWxy/Screenshot-2020-07-12-19-27-30.png
https://i.postimg.cc/9fysxCzW/Screensho … -27-30.png

I'm from the UK, and I can confirm that Braintree is a town in Essex, east of London.

And we also pronounce "Worcester" as "Woos-ter" (and Leicester = "Less-ter"; Gloucester = "Gloss-ter"; etc). But why "Cholmondeley" is pronounced "Chumly" is beyond me!

"Athol" is a Gaelic name ("New Ireland"), and the Duke of Atholl is apparently the only citizen of the United Kingdom entitled to maintain his own private army.

hhh · 2020-07-13 00:50:05

They don't call it "New England" for nothing. If you hadn't taxed our tea so heavily without representation back then, we would probably still be part of the Commonwealth. No wonder we prefer coffee now, South America didn't do anything comparable.

I'm slightly surprised a war of some sort didn't erupt when the Coke vs. Pepsi ad campaign was launched in the nineties. Everyone's stock portfolio was through the roof, that's why.

hhh · 2020-07-13 01:04:51

damo wrote:

But why "Cholmondeley" is pronounced "Chumly" is beyond me!

"kholmon delay". "chomon-delay". "chum-delay". "chumdly". "chumly". It's a perfectly cromulent pronunciation.

hhh · 2020-07-13 01:17:05

I just realized "cromulent" is nearly a twenty five year old Simpsons reference...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw9tnPSVDHQ

Time is weird. Fight Club is a 21 year old movie.

DeepDayze · 2020-07-13 01:20:03

damo wrote:

Seriously O/T...
hhh wrote:
I'm from Massachusetts, and I can confirm that Braintree is a town. Other weird township names in Mass include Athol (Asshole?) and Dracut (Dracula?) And of course, Worcester. In Mass, we pronouce it "Woos-tah". Pahty wicked hahd in Woos-tah!
https://i.postimg.cc/B8QhbWxy/Screenshot-2020-07-12-19-27-30.png
https://i.postimg.cc/9fysxCzW/Screensho … -27-30.png
I'm from the UK, and I can confirm that Braintree is a town in Essex, east of London.
And we also pronounce "Worcester" as "Woos-ter" (and Leicester = "Less-ter"; Gloucester = "Gloss-ter"; etc). But why "Cholmondeley" is pronounced "Chumly" is beyond me!
"Athol" is a Gaelic name ("New Ireland"), and the Duke of Atholl is apparently the only citizen of the United Kingdom entitled to maintain his own private army.

A lot of towns in the state of Massachusetts are indeed named after towns over in the jolly old motherland England

You should someday make the trip and @hhh will give you the grand tour!

hhh · 2020-07-13 01:27:20

A lot of Algonquian (native American) names as well, such as Massachusetts.

I haven't visited since 1993. I'll give you a great bicycle tour of downtown Charleston, SC, though.

Lol, I was born in Massachusetts and I still spell-check it every time. The states of New England... Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and then the states I grew up in... Connecticut and Massachusetts. As if a dysfunctional family wasn't enough. Connecticut??? Part of the whole Iroquois tribe, I think...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohegan-Pequot_language

I don't know much about it, but my mom is from Montreal and her grandmother or something was Iroquois, so I am part American Indian. I never checked if I'm eligible for some of that sweet casino revenue.

PackRat · 2020-07-13 19:24:30

@hhh - Your restaurant need to turn some lights off at night?

Link direto para a imagem

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Döbbie03 · 2020-07-14 07:46:19

hhh wrote:

I was born in Massachusetts

I was born in Napier. Napier, NZ. I spell check it never.

I feel for you guys with complicated place names but at least you don't have 'Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu' as your home town.

damo · 2020-07-14 08:55:07

Dobbie03 wrote:

...
I feel for you guys with complicated place names but at least you don't have 'Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu' as your home town.

Or "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" in Wales.

A rough translation is: "The place where the laptop keyboard has had beer spilt on it".

Sector11 · 2020-07-14 23:15:11

I kinda like Come by Chance, Newfoundland, I believe it is found in Conception Bay.

Have fun: Newfoundland place names will make blush.

DeepDayze · 2020-07-15 00:45:50

damo wrote:

Dobbie03 wrote:
...
I feel for you guys with complicated place names but at least you don't have 'Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu' as your home town.
Or "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" in Wales.
A rough translation is: "The place where the laptop keyboard has had beer spilt on it".

]:D

hhh · 2020-07-15 01:06:52

Farfegnugen.

Gesundheit.

The longest name for a geographical location in the world. New Zealand, North Island. @Dobbie shoud be able to confirm...

https://i.insider.com/5a7e26047101ad3fb … &auto=webp

Döbbie03 · 2020-07-15 07:05:49

hhh wrote:

Farfegnugen.
Gesundheit.
The longest name for a geographical location in the world. New Zealand, North Island. @Dobbie shoud be able to confirm...
https://i.insider.com/5a7e26047101ad3fb … &auto=webp

Confirmed, it's the one I posted further up.

ohnonot · 2020-07-15 15:42:37

Sector11 wrote:

I kinda like Come by Chance, Newfoundland, I believe it is found in Conception Bay.

Oooh, that tickles me!

Sector11 · 2020-07-15 16:19:56

ohnonot wrote:

Sector11 wrote:
I kinda like Come by Chance, Newfoundland, I believe it is found in Conception Bay.
Oooh, that tickles me!

Actually I was wrong but you are probably going to like this too.

Come by Chance is on Placentia Bay, I think they misspelled Placenta myself.

Have fun exploring Newfoundland

deleted0 · 2020-07-15 18:06:37

^ Placentia is derived from a Latin word meaning "pleasant place to live." The city name came from that change.

https://www.placentia.org/178/History-of-Placentia

8bit

PackRat · 2020-07-15 23:44:07

Hikari - wayland compistor based on cwm

link

johnraff · 2020-07-16 04:26:06

^Thanks for this.

Let's try not to forget Hikari as another compositor / window manager option to replace Openbox when Wayland becomes unavoidable.

(Added some keywords to help future searching.)

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