Bonnie, great news about more boxes from your sister! Now, I'm just
fascinated with the way New Englanders adopt and corrupt "old" England
place names. As a transplanted Californian too many years ago to
mention, I made the hideous mistake of calling Gloucester MA (scene of
the book "The Perfect Storm") Gl-ow-chester (rhymes with ouch-ester)
instead of Gl-ah-stah (rhymes with lob-stah). Both of the nearby Thames
Rivers are pronounced Th-ames instead of Tems. I live in East Lyme: we
also have Lyme, Old Lyme, North Lyme, and South Lyme. There would be a
West Lyme, too, I'm sure, if the Connecticut River wasn't in the way.
Nobody's working on building a New Lyme that I know of ;).

Jay


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