Louisville

[Victor Steinbok]

MIT's mid-1980s attempt-at-humor-magazine Tool & Die had a mock
coffee-creamer ad for "Creamate (pure 100% ash)".

     VS-)

On 5/25/2012 9:59 PM, W Brewer wrote:
> Don?t call it Creamora (R). While on the topic of toponymic curiosities,
> just a stone?s throw from the old homestead was the old mining town of
> Crimora VA. It must be added to your list of liquid dissimilatory
> deletions. The locals pronounce it [come.MORE.uh] (rhymes with Gomorrah).
> Stumped on the etymology. (I recall driving by the town sign years ago and
> saying,<<[kree.MORE.uh]?!? Who wants to live in coffee creamer?>>  And then
> my sister told me . . . the rest of the story.)

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