50 "weird" U.S. place names

[Jonathan Lighter]

Did I say B?

Of course I meant E.

Two embarrassing errors in 24 hrs.

One more and I quit.

JL


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Jan 14, 2014, at 5:12 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> http://screen.yahoo.com/buzzfeed/50-weirdest-city-names-50-221140519.html
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> > Observe how some people seem to think "butt" is spelled with a B.
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> > JL
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> And back in our innocent youth--or innocent early middle age, anyway--no
> eyebrow would be raised a scintilla at French Lick, Indiana--all we knew on
> earth, and all we needed to know, was that it was the home of Larry Bird.
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> LH
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