was: Re: [thechat] toronto phoons
Martin
martin at members.evolt.org
Tue Apr 23 13:47:00 CDT 2002
On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, at 07:23 pm, Miriam Frost wrote:
>> That's close to Bird-in-Hand, isn't it?
>
> When we went to Memphis..
> there was a Cooter in Missouri....
> Here in Wisconsin we have Dykesville, Institution, and Euren...
>
> ...and Illinois, they have Gratiot!
Grand Teton Mountains?
IIRC, a lot of more colourful town names were cleaned up in
the late C19th, but obviously the cleaneruppers didn't speak
French.
Cheers
Martin
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