RE: "Oh, that's competely different. Never mind."

My friend Bob Frish has the following information on... umm... Lake Webster.

 

---

Subject: RE: "Oh, that's competely different. Never mind."
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:44:27 -0500
To: bob_bendesky@hotmail.com

Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

 

Loosely translated means: you fish on side of the lake, I'll fish on my side of the lake and no one will fish in the middle.

 

It's  a very odd bit of trivia that I learned almost 40 years ago from going to summer camp in Maine that was big into Native American (i.e.: Indian) lore. All the cabins had tribal names like Algonquin, Navaho, Iroquois, etc. that saying was actually written over the door way to the "Indian Lodge" where the camp directors would tell stories related to Indian culture – Nothing like a group of Christian and Jews to tell stories about Indian culture.

 

(NPR did a story about this last week too… apparently the town fathers found a "typo" in one of the signs directing people to the lake.)

 

Bob Frish

 

.

 

From: Bob Bendesky [mailto:bob_bendesky@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 8:45 AM
Subject: "Oh, that's competely different. Never mind."

 

from World Wide Words newsletter:

 

 

Here in the UK, the longest name of  any place is the famous Welsh one, usually written as Lanfair PG:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. There are many longer, including one in New Zealand with 92 letters.

 

This week it was admitted officially that yet another long place name, of a lake near Worcester, Massachusetts, has been spelled wrongly on signs as Chargoggagoggmanchaoggagoggchaubunaguhgamaugg for some years.

 

It should be Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

The locals call it Lake Webster.

 

 

 This communication (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of  the individual(s) or entity(s) to which it is addressed and may contain  information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from  disclosure under law. If the reader of this message is not the intended  recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the  intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution  or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received  this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail and delete the  original message from your computer. Thank you

---

Windows Live™ Hotmail®:…more than just e-mail. Check it out.