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Hi Jim & All,
This agrees with my 1914 dictionary.
Green is given as gr(long e)n, Greenwich Conn. as gr(long e)n'wich
[long e being the first e in eve] as opposed to Greenwich UK and
Greenwich, Washington Co., N.Y. which are given as grin'ij [each i being
the i in ice].
Yt, DW
Jim Wolford wrote:
> Forgive me, I meant to write "GREEN-WITCH"! That's the only time I
> have heard it pronounced so phonetically! Jim
> ----------
> From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:07:54 -0400
> To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Subject: [NatureNS] Re: not GREEN-ITCH?
>
> 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
>
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