[Ads-l] Heard on F.B.I. Files: "Schuylkill [skool.kill] County, in a mountainous region...

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Schuylkill/Skookle - what else would you call it?


Using _Schuyler_ as my template, I thought of it as "Skyle.kill," until
ca.2009, when I moved into Northeast - not "northeastern" - P-A, not
"Pennsylvania." People also say "crick" and not "creek," "Mayan" and not
"mine," "overtown" - because it's over the Susquehanna River - and not
"downtown," around these parts.


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