--My dear aunt in Chelsea calls it MEDFID You are all cracking me up down here in SC! I sure do miss hearing that yankee talk! Jan LIVE, FREE genealogy help at www.genealogyforum.org ---- Jude Galvin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Joe.. > > I think it was Larry Glick that called it > > "Med-fa" > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joseph T Chetwynd" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 11:56 PM > Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] [MAMiddle] How to pronounce Massachusetts Town Names > > > > And, how can you ever forget to include, olde MEDFORD, pronounced by the > > townies as Meff-udd. > > > > Then, too, there is now Manchester - By - The - Sea , and, good > > naturedly , sarcastically , mockingly, my favorite, Gloss- Tah - By - > > The - Smell . > > > > Keep a sense of humor. > > > > Joe The Calker > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/581 - Release Date: 12/9/2006 > 3:41 PM > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

--Thanks! You made me laugh out loud! I was bawn in Bahstin! You got those names down pat! Thanks! Jan LIVE, FREE genealogy help at www.genealogyforum.org ---- Priscilla Haines <[email protected]> wrote: > I get the idearrrr. I was brought up in Winchesta. I have a daughta Linder > and her twin sista Sandrer. Prisciller > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Bobbie Hall > Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 3:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] How to pronounce Massachusetts Town Names > > Just ask, and on of us will reply! > > Cheers, > Bobbie Hall > Chicago (ex-"Dead-um") > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sue Richart" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:30 AM > Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] How to pronounce Massachusetts Town Names > > > > Nice! I've seen names for Mass towns I've never even heard of while going > > through the database. It is nice to finally figure out the correct way to > > say their names. Now, you natives need to work on those missing towns' > > pronunciations. > > > > Sue Richart > > Chewelah, Washington State > > Born in Boston, but my family left when I was two years old. . > > > > > > On 12/10/06, Farns10th wrote: > >> > >> This brings you to Worcester Co. which contains all the Counties of Mass. > >> and all the towns > >> of Mass. > >> > >> (_http://www.worcestermass.com/pronounce/middlesexcounty.shtml#groton_ > >> (http://www.worcestermass.com/pronounce/middlesexcounty.shtml#groton) ) > >> > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/581 - Release Date: 09/Dec/06 > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/581 - Release Date: 09/Dec/06 > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

There is a great nostalgia on my part for the wonderful and colorful expressions used by my great aunts and uncles while growing up in Maine - maybe these will jog memories of a few others. Bless My Stars and Garters (aka bless my stahs and gahtahs) which I guess denoted astonishment Leanin Toward Sawyers (Sawyahs) smells worse than clams at low tide busier than a cat on a marble floor slower than cold molasses going up a hill in January So- whether we natives pronounce Worcester as Woostah, Gloucester as Glostah, Havehill as Hava-ill- or make sure that all one sylabble words become two (e.g., four becomes fo-ah), celebrate the differences! Ten to one- the expression "Goucester/Manchester by the smell" was originated with the natives- we do have a sense of humor about ourselves! J.

I grew up in Brighton and heard Medford all along the way. We pronounced it Med-fudd. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 12:50 AM Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] [MAMiddle] How to pronounce Massachusetts Town Names > Joe, > > Do you come from "Gloucester"? I am wondering because some people even > though you meant that good naturedly, may take offense. I don't, but some would. > I love that town./or is it considered a city? > > I don't recall hearing the Medford one, I know a lot of folks from > Medford(including some family) and they never say it like that. Oh well. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Jerry Williams might well have originated that pronounciation for Medford.

See, there, now. It ketchin' on.

Dear Prisciller, t'aint it a bit ' niyce t' be able ta write in the same nat'rul axsent wut we were tot t'e speek in as chidrin ? Ey yup. Joe The Calker

Dear Sir, or M'am, No, I do not come from Gloucester, but I have spent time working there restoring sailing vessels and it is a favorite joke among the local shipyard workers. I am sure, however, that SOME will take offense, especially in our overly "PC " world. I have the greatest respect for the people of Gloucester. The reference to ' the smell ' likely goes back to the time when the city was a major sea port and the oiers reeked of fish smell, but more recently to the change of name of the town of Manchester to Manchester on the sea, just a bit too fussy and pretentious for me, and others. Sadly, that is a rarely smelled scent in today's fishing market reality. For what it is worth, there are two men of my ancestral family name listed on the Gloucester Memorial to fishermen lost at sea. Another, not listed, of course, was lost out of Prince Rupert, BC, Canada, a brother of one lost out of Gloucester, and three others, also not listed there, were lost in Nova Scotia fisheries. I have great respect for the heritage of that ancient, rough-hewn city of fisherman families. Joe The Calker

Have you tried the Mass State Archives or the FHL? They have many of the institutional records for Boston. I can't remember which ones you were looking for, but it's worth trying if you haven't already. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] Prison records. Hi Jen. I gave them a call, they have no idea how I can get those records. Thank you for your reply. I'm sure i'll find them someday. Best wishes. Bob ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

In a message dated 12/11/2006 2:31:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I get the idearrrr. I was brought up in Winchesta. I have a daughta Linder and her twin sista Sandrer. Prisciller I love it ! Smile !

Joe.. I think it was Larry Glick that called it "Med-fa" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph T Chetwynd" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 11:56 PM Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] [MAMiddle] How to pronounce Massachusetts Town Names > And, how can you ever forget to include, olde MEDFORD, pronounced by the > townies as Meff-udd. > > Then, too, there is now Manchester - By - The - Sea , and, good > naturedly , sarcastically , mockingly, my favorite, Gloss- Tah - By - > The - Smell . > > Keep a sense of humor. > > Joe The Calker > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/581 - Release Date: 12/9/2006 3:41 PM > >

no, no....it is Winthrop by the Sea, Chelsea by the Swamp

Joe, Do you come from "Gloucester"? I am wondering because some people even though you meant that good naturedly, may take offense. I don't, but some would. I love that town./or is it considered a city? I don't recall hearing the Medford one, I know a lot of folks from Medford(including some family) and they never say it like that. Oh well.

And, how can you ever forget to include, olde MEDFORD, pronounced by the townies as Meff-udd. Then, too, there is now Manchester - By - The - Sea , and, good naturedly , sarcastically , mockingly, my favorite, Gloss- Tah - By - The - Smell . Keep a sense of humor. Joe The Calker

I get the idearrrr. I was brought up in Winchesta. I have a daughta Linder and her twin sista Sandrer. Prisciller -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bobbie Hall Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 3:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] How to pronounce Massachusetts Town Names Just ask, and on of us will reply! Cheers, Bobbie Hall Chicago (ex-"Dead-um") ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Richart" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] How to pronounce Massachusetts Town Names > Nice! I've seen names for Mass towns I've never even heard of while going > through the database. It is nice to finally figure out the correct way to > say their names. Now, you natives need to work on those missing towns' > pronunciations. > > Sue Richart > Chewelah, Washington State > Born in Boston, but my family left when I was two years old. . > > > On 12/10/06, Farns10th wrote: >> >> This brings you to Worcester Co. which contains all the Counties of Mass. >> and all the towns >> of Mass. >> >> (_http://www.worcestermass.com/pronounce/middlesexcounty.shtml#groton_ >> (http://www.worcestermass.com/pronounce/middlesexcounty.shtml#groton) ) >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/581 - Release Date: 09/Dec/06 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/581 - Release Date: 09/Dec/06

In a message dated 12/10/2006 5:45:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Gloucester, Worcester, Reading is Redding, So how do Massachusetters pronounce Reading - Read-ing?

Gloucester, Worcester, Reading is Redding,

And, let us now forget that old irritating one called.............. Pea - body It is Pea-buddy

In a message dated 12/10/2006 4:33:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Actually, it is pronounced, Gloss-tah and Woos-tah. That is the real old New England sound, with the " tah " kind-of whispered. That is how I pronounce it (with my Rhode Island accent)

Snipped ... > > Where were you born (may I ask)? And does your Gloukester sound like > Gluekester > or Glowkester? > And who would know what you were tawkin' about? ROTFL! Bobbie Chicago (ex- "Dead-um")