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On 4/23/2015 12:06 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 4/23/15 12:01 PM, True North wrote: On Thursday, 23 April 2015 09:50:18 UTC-3, wrote: On Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 6:15:44 AM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/23/2015 3:49 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/22/2015 9:11 PM, wrote: On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 4:24:35 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/22/2015 4:18 PM, wrote: On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 2:58:24 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote: Back when I had boats in Scituate, MA the town had a fairly new Whaler set up as one of the Harbormaster's patrol boats. Over the course of a couple of years it sat lower in the water and was losing top speed. They hauled it, drilled a hole in the hull and water drained out of it for days. I think they contacted Boston Whaler about it but I don't know what the outcome was. How do the locals pronouce "Scituate"? It's fun to listen to some of the national news outlets or visitors to MA try to pronounce "Worcester" correctly. Up here, it's a two syllable word. Thanks, I was seriously interested. There are some town names all over the country that are pronounced a bit strange except for the locals. I'm guessing Worcester is pronounced worsh-ster. "wooster" Correction: "Woosta" And they say us southerners talk funny! ![]() I think y'all talk funny! I always heard it pronounced "Wuuusta" and "Wista." Massachusetts is full of fun place names, like, oh, Haverhill. I have some cousins that grew up in towns on Boston's North Shore, and it is always a grin to talk to them because of their pronunciation differences and their vocabularies full of unique local words. Haverhill is pronounced "Heyvrill" up here. I get a kick out of all the towns or places in MA with Indian words or tribe names. Just a few of many: Agawam (means "low water" or "place to unload canoes") Assinippi ("rocks in water") Lake Chaubunagungamaug Cochituate ("place of swift water") Humarock "shell place" or "rock carving" Pocasset "where the stream widens" Sagamore "chief" Scituate "at the cold spring or brook" Swampscott "place of red rocks" |
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