Monday, July 30, 2018

What's in a name?

For want of anything more interesting to write about this evenng (a major case of blogger's block) here's a factoid I learned this morning,  Did you know that the longest geographic name in the United States is 
Lake Chargoggaggmanghauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg?  This is a lake near Webster, Massachusetts,  I guess Massachusetts wasn't a long enough name. So, OK, if you tell me that you are already familiar with the name of this lake, I will accept that.  But do you know what it means?  According to my source, this a Native American word that means "You fish on you side, I fish on my side, nobody fishes in the middle." While I applaud the sentiment couldn't they condense it into something that means "Fish on your own side?'

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