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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-415--262600475 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed > On Oct 11, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Jim Wolford wrote: > > Jon's right, of course, but there is an issue here that needs a =20 > 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 = =20 > were > (or is it too late now, or nobody cares but me?). Anyhow, this =20 > probably > doesn't deserve any discussion here now. Blame Jon for bringing this =20= > 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?? > This is from the Wikipedia entry for Hants County (also no apostrophe =20= in Hants: Hants County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The county of Hants was created June 17, 1781, and consisted of the =20 townships of Windsor, Falmouth and Newport. Originally getting its name =20=
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