If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!
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@scottalanmiller Thanks....
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Wow all kinds of new people here!
Welcome to all!
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Welcome to all of the newbies! Great to see so many new faces.
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Welcome everyone!
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@XeL of course I do.
Welcome to all new faces!
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Lauren here from VT. I finally was invited to the cool kids club ;o). Looking forward to learning more about this community.
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@Lauren7060 WElcome aboard!
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Welcome Lauren!
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@Lauren7060 said:
Lauren here from VT. I finally was invited to the cool kids club ;o). Looking forward to learning more about this community.
Welcome to the party!
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Welcome @Lauren7060
What's a VT?
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It's a US state, Vermont.
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@nadnerB said:
Welcome @Lauren7060
What's a VT?
(currently, I think it's a car here and here)US State. Vermont.
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Bill Bryson talks in his book "Made in America" how some illiterate people thinking that Vermont was French for "green mountain" likely named the state. But in French it would be montagne verte which as you can see is very different. Vermont literally means Mount Worm.
Maybe Mount Worm was always intended to be the name or maybe it was an inside joke. But most people have given the state's founders credit as not being malicious, just idiots.
The famous mountain range in Vermont is the Green Mountains. Hence why people assume that was what people meant to name the state. But Mount Worm somehow won out when picking the name.
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Well "mount" in French is "mont", and "green" is "vert". Do the math.
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@art_of_shred said:
Well "mount" in French is "mont", and "green" is "vert". Do the math.
But ver, is not. Ver = worm. It is was Vertmont, it would be one thing, but it is not. Vert does not appear in the name.
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Cause it would look dumb. Vermont flows better. I get it. Call it "commoner's etymology".
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@art_of_shred said:
Cause it would look dumb. Vermont flows better. I get it. Call it "commoner's etymology".
Except we could pronounce it the same, that it is written "Worm Mountain" is the odd bit.
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Alligator comes from the spanish term el largarto. Just another word that got butchered...lol
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The American English seems to be good at doing this.
