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Originally Posted by Pineedles
Did you see the name for Squam? Confumpy Pond? Can you imagine what the movie promos would have suffered if "On Golden Pond" had to admit the name of the lake was Confumpy Pond?  |
It's that long "s" again.
With the misspellings of Wolf
eboro and "Barn
ftead", this cartographer probably intended the name to have been the more pleasant-sounding and tourist-attracting,
Consumpy Pond.
Hmmm. "Consumption" was the former name for tuberculosis.
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Originally Posted by CrawfordCentury
"...Looks like what they call a long 's' to me..."  |
More than one ever wanted to know about the "long-s".
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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
"...
Said one state rep from Londonderry:
'Replacing that Winnipisseogee name is just a solution that's look'n for a problem, and don't you tell me otherwise...!'"
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My Dad, who grew up, sailed, raced powerboats and was employed at Camp Wyanoke—on the lake
prior to the meeting of the 1933 Legislature,
still reverts to "Winnipisseogee" when he speaks of those days.