NATCH*TOCHES

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 06:08 PM 2/8/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Barry, your post of Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:21:37 EST began
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>in one cite and continued
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>NATCHITOCHES:
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>in the next. Is the first "o" in the first cite a slip of your overworked
>fingers or an actual spelling variant in the title of the source?
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>-- Mark A. Mandel
>    founding member, Compulsive Proofreaders Anonymous
>    and Procrastinators Anonymous ... someday

And this place name has an unusual pronunciation too, doesn't it?  I'm not
sure what it is, but as I recall, J.L. Dillard taught there before moving
up to my neck of the woods.

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