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Old 05-20-2010, 08:04 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by StephenB View Post
By the way, I'm from Mass., and I thought the official spelling was Winnipesaukee. (No, I didn't have to look it up.)
Like I said at the beginning of my post with the big list - I didn't write the list - it make the email joke rounds a few years back. I just copied and pasted the thing 'cuz I thought it might lighten up the tone of things... Life is too short to grumble.


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Okay and the soda/tonic/pop thing.... I grew up in Maine... my mom is from Maine but my dad was from Holderness/Sanbornton area... we called it soda when we were at restaurants or when we had folks over, but mainly it was called MOXIE.
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