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Hi All,
I have lived in the Valley for most of 73 years and have never
encountered the Green-itch variant.
Berwick is a different matter. The local pronunciation sounds like
Berwick and the UK like Burrek.
Yt, DW
Roland McCormick wrote:
> Interesting - I lived in Billtown from 1957 until 1871 and everyone
> called the area gren-itch.
>
>
>
> Roland
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Richard Stern <mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com>
>
> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca <mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 7:51 AM
>
> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Re: not GREN-ITCH?
>
>
> Yes - the local pronunciation is GREEN-itch, and if you asked
> anyone around here how to get to GREN-itch, the correct answer
> would be to go to Halifax airport, take a flight to London,
> England, then take the underground. Also, the "w" is silent in
> both place names. Incidentally, Paul Elderkin (who first saw the
> Y-T warbler at his feeder and alerted Bernard) didn't see it
> yesterday.
>
> Richard
>
> On Nov 20, 2007 11:30 PM, Stephen Shaw < srshaw@dal.ca
> <mailto:srshaw@dal.ca> > wrote:
>
> Is this actually the locally accepted pronunciation?
> Presumably the name model is the near-London, UK, celebrated
> place that is the
> location of the famous astronomical observatory /meridian
> /mean time, a place
> which is pronounced there as GREN-ITCH (rhymes with PEN), not
> GREEN-ITCH. Is
> it really GREEN-ITCH here?
> Steve
>
> Quoting George Forsyth <g4syth@staff.ednet.ns.ca
> <mailto:g4syth@staff.ednet.ns.ca> >:
> > On 20, Nov 2007, at 10:04 AM, Jim Wolford wrote:
> >> Nov. 19, 2007 - In late afternoon Bernard Forsythe saw a
> lovely
> >> YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER along Paul Elderkin's driveway at
> Greenwich (locally
> >> pronounced "green-itch"), Thanks, Jim You're
> getting the hang of it!
> >
> George
> >
> >> just east of the Wolfville boundary (long driveway
> >> north of Main St./Highway 1. Paul's driveway is slightly
> east of and across
> >> the street from Elderkin's Farm Market.
> >>
>
>
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