[Magdalen] the sound of words

[Jon Egger]

My home state -MN- has it's own interesting place names.  The city of
Cloquet (Kloe-Kay) has the only FLWright designed gas station.  A town
further north on the way to the Great Dominion is named Byuck (Bike).  My
hometown, Gilbert, I now pronounce as Letterman's replacement pronounces
his name.

Grace and peace,
brud
Listening to Christian Rap/hip-hop on iTunes in his new MacBookPro.

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I like that one.
>
> When I was job-hunting, mainly for teaching jobs, it was interesting
> to get to know a bit about the various towns I visited. In one or two
> of them, there seemed to be an oft-used and very odd (to me) name that
> was attached to most things in the town, and I seriously doubted
> whether I could live there because of that. Never mind that I'd
> probably get used to it and had lived in places with names that
> probably sounded very normal to me but disconcertingly odd to others.
>
> One was Columbus, Ohio, with its Olentangy (river and other stuff).
> Middletown, Ohio, had a strange name, too, that I don't recall, but I
> do recall the interviewing principal's pride in his strict
> corporal-punishment policy. No thanks.
>
> Berrien Springs, Mich., and environs has a lot of things called
> Pokagon, which I mispronounced as POKE-a-gon as though it were some
> sort of geometric shape. It's po-CAG-un.
>
> One that we take for granted in Chicago but our Roger+ hadn't heard
> before is Wabash...think of a gala for the Brideshead Revisited
> author: it's an Evelyn Waugh bash. <d&r>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 3:57 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford
> <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The stream that passes through my birthplace is Connoquennessing Creek.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connoquenessing,_Pennsylvania
> >
> > Lots of places around there had that name.  It means, I am told, "A long
> > way straight."
> >
> > kon eh kweh NESS ing
>
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>