Hey Susan if you’re going to pick on Lisa for being from Longuylind at least get it right. It’s one word Longuylind not two words Long Island. Kind of like ‘Nawlins and not New Orleans. Of course one of the fun things about living on Longuylind is we have all these really cool towns with Indian Native American names that get butchered by everyone especially the folks in midwest call centers. Now I live in Wantagh (pronounced like Juantaw) and my wife works in Hauppauge (pronounced hophog), but she used to work near Nissequogue (pronounced Nisaqwog). We’re pretty close to Massapequa (pronounced Massapeekwa) but I have visited Copiague (pronounced Kopayg), and Patchogue (pronounced Patchog). And despite having really horrible names Locust Valley and MuttonTown are swanky places to live.
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Haha, I had no idea people butchered longuylind city names until you spelled it out, but then again I lived in Stony Brook. I think Hicksville is still my favorite name for a town.
Hey my friend lives in Massapequa and we’ll be down there mid December. I’ll be sure to ring your doorbell and run. haha
fantastic!
Now try coming from South Africa…
I grew up in Umhlali (mshlaali), which is quite close to Umhlanga (mshlunguh) and Umhlodi (msholti) and near to ithekweni (itequwen), then you get the stupid afrikaans names like klipfontein (stone-fountain), rondebosch (round-the-bush) and pof-adder (Puff-Adder – and yes there are and yes people still choose to live there…)
the english came along and added their own touch so we have Salt-Rock (there isn’t), the Dolphin coast (there used to be before the crazies on their jetskis) and TableView (view of table mountain) which the Afrikaaners called Blaauwberg (Blue mountain.. its not)
Everybody is everyone else’s ‘bru’ and if you drank too much the night before you have a buhbuhlus (how you say it – not spell it…)
well that was fun
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I grew up in BayShaw … just change at Babylon and go 1 stop.
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