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[RonL]

countrygirl

Many times I have received mail with Worcester spelled Worchester, even after I have spelled it for the sender. Tomorrow night I am driving into Cambridge, where I will park my car in Harvard Yard.

RonL

 

[BigDave]

Don't ya mean Wooster & Pibiddy. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif My personal favorites are: Shelbyville, TN (shovel) & Arab, AL (ae-rab) /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

it is more like Pee Body....

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I don't Park my car in Harvard Yard,, i have sorta lost the accent...

 

[chim]

My Dad was in the Navy, and for a while was stationed in VA. They had a saying - "We neither drink, nor smoke, Norfolk"..............chim

 

[BigDave]

Pee Body? I bet you put an "H" in Amherst. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif I did my time in Mass., and it seemed that everytime I mentioned a name of a town, a local would give me some odd proninciation as a correction. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

is there not a 'H' in Amherst??

 

[BigDave]

My sister-in-law grew up and still lives near Amherst, and I lived near Amherst for a while, and everytime I mentioned Amherst, she would say "AMERST, it's AMERST" as if I was one of her kids. It really annoyed her when I put the the "H" in Amherst. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif She's also my source for Wooster & Pibiddy. So, if Pibiddy is wrong, just blame the folks in Western Mass.

 

[DavidInNH]

Anybody want to give "Leominster" a try?

 

[Carl_NH]

How about Billerica too.. When I first moved to the NE from PA and was looking for Wuster on the map I could not find it, then I was asking for directions one day and I was looking for Billerica the person helping me had no idea where I was trying to go, even though I was in the next town!!