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Jon's right, of course, but there is an issue here that needs a crusader? I look at it as both a heritage issue and a grammar issue (not just the latter, as some of you might suspect). I think the current lists of "official place names" are doing a huge cop-out by taking all the apostrophes out of those names. If this is allowed to go on for much longer, nobody alive will know what the original names' origins really were (or is it too late now, or nobody cares but me?). Anyhow, this probably doesn't deserve any discussion here now. Blame Jon for bringing this up, and my use of apostrophes, often hypothetically, is intentional -- e.g. King's County, Starr's Point, etc. etc. -- does anyone know where the name Hants came from in Hants County?? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville ---------- From: JPercy <jpercy@auracom.com> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:10:31 -0300 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Beached Whale I'm afraid I'm going to have to take Jim to task on this one - The NS Government Surveys and Mapping Division recognizes the name "Phinneys Cove", without the apostrophe!!!! Cheers Jon Percy Granville Ferry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> To: "NatureNS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>; "Jon Percy" <bofep@auracom.com>; "Shelley Barnaby" <scbarnaby@tartannet.ns.ca>; "Carl Haycock" <foggy@ns.sympatico.ca>; "Laurie Murison" <gmwhale@nbnet.nb.ca>; "Deborah Tobin" <deb.tobin@ns.sympatico.ca>; "Tonya Wimmer" <twimmer@dal.ca> Sent: October 8, 2006 11:53 AM Subject: FW: [NatureNS] Beached Whale Thanks, John. Today's Herald front section has two short articles on whales: this dead 11-m., 40-tonne, female humpback that came to shore at Phinney's Cove, nw. of Bridgetown -- Conway said there were no external marks to indicate ship collision or entanglement, and a living beached small pilot whale that was apparently rescued (pushed into deeper water) at Tancook Island. Cheers from Jim ----------
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