The Canadians are taking over the Merrimack Valley?

[W Brewer]

JB:  <<"Bill-rick-a" and "Nash-ooh-a", pronounced like A as in NEIGHBOR and
WEIGH>>
WB:  Something to do with the <i> before <e> rule?
PJ:  <<Algonquian moroherme /@we/: Piscataway, Rockaway, Rahway,
"Chicagouais">>
WB:  <<Away down south in Dixie, away, away (morohermic triplication).
<<Down south of the border, down Mexico way. [Down Mexico, eh?]>>
((actually 1939 song by Kennedy (Irish songwriter) & Cohen (British
composer) for Gene Autry (American cowboy).))

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