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[Wilson Gray]

When I was in the third grade, a group of us followed Lee Lanier
around, chanting,

"Lanier is a Frenchy name!"

It made him cry.

-Wilson

On 2/21/07, David Bergdahl <dlbrgdhl at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2/21/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> > And this (unAmerican?) pattern seems to be spreading. For example, the
> > Atlanta zoo called Zoo Atlanta.
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> > --Charlie
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> Un-American, like "Lake Erie" or "Canal Winchester" (a suburb of Columbus)
> or  many other Frenchy names?
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> :-)
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