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#96119
02/18/2003 5:31 PM
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a news report mentioned a town i was unfamiliar with-- It spoke of the town of Newcastle-- Later i realized they meant New Cassel--(a town i did know from street signs)
i realized that Castle and Cassel i would say as cas'l (one sylable)as Cas sel(2 sylables). I don't know which is right for the town name (i don't trust news reporters to get it right)-- but how would you say New Cassel?
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#96120
02/18/2003 5:38 PM
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Come, come now, ledasdottir. You're not expecting strangers to pronounce New York place names right the first time through. I need merely mention:
Taughannock
Skaneateles
Delhi
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#96121
02/18/2003 6:07 PM
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Not to mention Rensselaer or Poughkeepsie or Chautauqua.
But in fairness, New York isn't unique in this regard. Massachusetts has Worcester (I should know!), and Leicester, and any number of inscrutable names of Indian origin...
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#96122
02/18/2003 8:00 PM
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and any number of inscrutable names of Indian origin...
Yeah! Like Delhi....
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#96123
02/18/2003 8:16 PM
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Re: You're not expecting strangers to pronounce New York place names right the first time through. I need merely mention: Taughannock,Skaneateles, Delhi
Not to mention quaintly named ones like Painted Post or Water Mill
but Cassel is not really a "strange name"...
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#96124
02/18/2003 8:33 PM
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>f inscrutable names of Indian origin... Yeah! Like Delhi.... Indian - bah! Hmm, that's "non-native American" tyvm. 
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#96125
02/18/2003 11:08 PM
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And Newcastle (the Australian one) is pronounced by the East Coasters as New-cas'l whereas the rest of the country pronounces it New-cahs'l.
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#96126
02/19/2003 12:53 AM
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"non-native American" tyvm.
Right. Indian.
But pronounced Dell-High
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#96127
02/20/2003 3:09 PM
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There's a town just "up the road a piece" here in New Hampshire called New Castle.
In pre-Revolutionary times, New Hampshire folks in Portsmouth raised a Liberty Pole, then stole the British stores of ordnance and rowed across it all to the (then) island of New Castle and hid part of the ammunition and rifles in New Castle church basement. Some ordnance was taken overland and hidden in Exeter church basements. Brits didn't see them again until they faced them in battle in the hands of the Colonials!
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