RE: [Paddlewise] leeward shore

From: Rob Cookson <rob_cookson_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:05:38 -0800
Hi Jack and All,

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> A piece of trivium: in New England in the old days, that word was 
> pronounced
> 
> 
> loo-erd, not lee-werd. 
> 


In many places on the Coast of Maine it still is.

Cheers,
--
Rob Cookson
"I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the
Atmosphere." Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Abigail Adams, February 22,
1787.
 

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