LOL! We here in NEW Hampshire in NEW England also have:
Dover (my home town), Exeter, Portsmouth, Manchester, Derry, Nottingham, Canterbury, New Castle, Durham, Rye, Hampton and North Hampton, Chichester, Rochester, and more. Then there's Berlin, Hanover, and who knows what else.
But of course, the early settlers of NH were largely from England (Dover was settled in 1623) and most early settlers were far from home and looking for some tiny piece of their old lives...
I wonder what it was about Manchester. It's hard to find a state in north-east US without town named Manchester.
Can't answer the Manchester question but it's a good one. I did live in Durham NC for a while in grad school, and I knew of Pinehurst, but Dunrovin, along with Dunloggin and Dunteachin, now that's something I didna know!
There are a few places here that has foreign nicknames like Little Paris (due to a poet who lived her and wrote a poem about this place - Little Paris), Stockholm is sometimes reffered to as Venice of the North and there are some other not nice names to places, the mildest is a metroline called Orient Express to suburbs outside Stockholm.
My iPad says Sunny 3 degrees C and here're photos of the frost outside.
My iPad says Sunny 3 degrees C and here're photos of the frost outside.
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It's the cold, damp and dark that makes it miserable, the last few days have been nice, the sun showing up the autumn colours.
The kids just need 1/4 inch of snow for their snow toys.Little ski slope for the little ones? Getting them to start early, eh.
Same here. A few years ago we had nearly five months of continuous heavy grey cloud cover, mixed with rain and snow. After a month or so without ever seeing the sun, I start to feel as though I cannot quite wake up, so I stumble around feeling groggy and half-asleep all day, every day.
Again, the same here. A forecast for an entire week of rain turned out to be completely wrong; instead, we have bright sunshine and blue skies. Cold, clear, and beautiful!
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Not just British names. I still remember my shock the first time I heard an American television sports commentator discussing the football team from Indiana's Notre Dame University. He pronounced "Notre" so it rhymed with "otter", and "Dame" like the word "lame".
I have virtually zero knowledge of French (c'est tragique, n'est ce pas?), but even in my ignorance, "Otter Lame" sounded pretty atrocious.
-Gnobuddy
Not just British names. I still remember my shock the first time I heard an American television sports commentator discussing the football team from Indiana's Notre Dame University. He pronounced "Notre" so it rhymed with "otter", and "Dame" like the word "lame".
