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Index of Subjects ------=_Part_33077_7960291.1195738288167 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi, Not quite the end! - Apparently some of the original planters who came to Greenwich, NS, came from Greenwich, CT - which was also pronounced Green-itch. Richard On Nov 22, 2007 2:07 AM, Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote: > One more on this?: Many years ago I was in my car in the Connecticut/New > York City area and couldn't believe my ears when some broadcaster on the > radio mentioned something that had just happened in "Green-itch" > (Connecticut)! > > Cheers from Jim in "Woofful" -- end of subject? My favourite or > unfavourite pronunciation locally is for the whistle-stop near Windsor > called Mantua, which is locally pronounced "man-o-way"! Then there is Port > Mouton which is Port Matoon ....... > ---------- > *From: *Hubcove@aol.com > *Reply-To: *naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > *Date: *Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:40:12 -0500 (EST) > *To: *naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > *Subject: *Re: [NatureNS] Re: not GREN-ITCH? > > This string has probably gone on long enough but as a former local > resident of the Greenwich England area, I am obliged to say that we called > it Gren-idge, or, as the Standard dictionary says, Gren-ij. There was no > "itch" > Peter Stow > Hubbards > > -- ################# Dr.Richard Stern, 70 Exhibition St. Kentville, NS, Canada B4N 4K9 Richard Stern, 317 Middle Dyke Rd. Port Williams, NS, Canada B0P 1T0 rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca rbstern@xcountry.tv sternrichard@gmail.com ################### ------=_Part_33077_7960291.1195738288167 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi,<br><br>Not quite the end! - Apparently some of the original planters who came to Greenwich, NS, came from Greenwich, CT - which was also pronounced Green-itch.<br><br>Richard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 22, 2007 2:07 AM, Jim Wolford < jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> One more on this?: Many years ago I was in my car in the Connecticut/New York City area and couldn't believe my ears when some broadcaster on the radio mentioned something that had just happened in "Green-itch" (Connecticut)! <br> <br> Cheers from Jim in "Woofful" -- end of subject? My favourite or unfavourite pronunciation locally is for the whistle-stop near Windsor called Mantua, which is locally pronounced "man-o-way"! Then there is Port Mouton which is Port Matoon ....... <br> ----------<br> <b>From: </b>Hubcove@aol.com<br> <b>Reply-To: </b>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<br> <b>Date: </b>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:40:12 -0500 (EST)<br> <b>To: </b>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<br> <b>Subject: </b>Re: [NatureNS] Re: not GREN-ITCH?<br> <br> <font face="Arial">This string has probably gone on long enough but as a former local resident of the Greenwich England area, I am obliged to say that we called it Gren-idge, or, as the Standard dictionary says, Gren-ij. There was no "itch" <br> Peter Stow<br> Hubbards<br> </font> <br> </div> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>#################<br>Dr.Richard Stern, <br>70 Exhibition St.<br>Kentville, NS, Canada<br>B4N 4K9<br><br>Richard Stern, <br>317 Middle Dyke Rd.<br>Port Williams, NS, Canada <br>B0P 1T0<br><br>rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca
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