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  Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is an unofficial name of Lake Chaubunagungamaug east of Webster, Massachusetts.
Webster schools also have Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg written around their cafeteria as they are proud of their long name.
"Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg" is the longest place name in the United States and 6th longest in the world.
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 Encyclopedia: Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is an unofficial name of Lake Chaubunagungamaug east of
There is more consensus on the meaning of Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, but it turns out the consensus is wrong.
In the 1920s, a reporter for The Webster Times, Lawrence J. Daly, wrote that it was a Nipmuck Indian word meaning "You fish on your side, I fish on my side and nobody fishes in the middle." That stuck even though Daly confessed repeatedly that he had made the whole thing up.
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 Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Mathematical analyses offer new insights into age-old controversies...
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is the official name of a lake in Webster, Massachusetts.
The lake has a surface area of 1,442 acres (583 hectares).
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 Neat stuff from around the world
Or the postcards at Waterfront Mary's, the lake's best-known restaurant, which have smuggled an extra "gaug" into the name.
Even for the locals who live around this sprawling central Massachusetts lake with the even more sprawling name, Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg — the longest place name in the country — is not for the tied of tongue.
The real meaning, said Paul Macek, a historian in Webster, a community of about 17,000 just northwest of where Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts intersect, is "English knifemen and Nipmuck Indians at the boundary or neutral fishing place."
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 Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is an unofficial name of Lake Chaubunagungamaug east of Webster, Massachusetts (Webster, Massachusetts: more facts about this subject).
"Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg" is the longest place name in the United States (United States: North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) and 6th longest in the world.
See also: Longest word in the English language (Longest word in the English language: more facts about this subject) and List of interesting or unusual place names (List of interesting or unusual place names: more facts about this subject)
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Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is the official name of a in Webster Massachusetts.
He proposed the tongue-in-cheek translation "You on Your Side I Fish on My Nobody Fish in the Middle" which met so much popular acceptance that the actual is fairly little known.
See also: Longest word in the English language and List of interesting or unusual place names
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 languagehat.com: SOME JUST CALL IT WEBSTER.
A NY Times story by Pam Belluck discusses what is said to be the longest place name in the US, Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in Massachusetts.
There's a picture of a misspelled sign, lyrics from "The Lake Song" by Ethel Merman and Ray Bolger ("Oh, we took a walk one evening and we sat down on a log/ By Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg"), and an etymological excursus:
In the 1920's, a reporter for The Webster Times, Lawrence J. Daly, wrote that it was a Nipmuck Indian word meaning "You fish on your side, I fish on my side and nobody fishes in the middle." That stuck even though Mr.
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 WELCOME TO WOMAG ONLINE!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It’s impossible to talk about the place without making the mandatory mention of the lake with the Native American name, Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
Among its lore is that it was commemorated in song by Ethel Merman and Ray Bolger (the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz) and, according to a 2004 New York Times article, it’s the longest place name in the country.
And dining on mellifluous Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is an excellent setting in which to say goodbye to summer.
www.worcestermag.com /archives/2005/09-01-05/current/dining.shtml   (688 words)

  
 Morganically Grown » Blog Archive » I ♥ Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
Morganically Grown » Blog Archive » I ♥ Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
Today’s New York Times is running an article on the lake with the longest name of any place in the country: Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
So long, even the welcome sign that the Chamber of Commerce put up is spelled wrong.
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 FARK.com: (525198) Woman sights Memphremagog Monster. Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg considering ...
I met Kent Hovind in Rockland, MA today - he is in the Boston area this weekend and he's a really nice guy.
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is a 17-mile-around lake in Webster, MA.
The original name of the lake as it appears in ancient deeds was Chabanakongkomom, with fewer letters and easier to pronounce.
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 The New York Times > Opinion > About Lake Chargogga...Oh, Never Mind (2 Letters)
My dad was greatly amused when, years later, he taught his young daughters how to say it.
I reasoned that if the indigenous Native American language was able to pack that much information into one syllable, a name like Amagansett must translate as a substantial essay or novella.
By that token, Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg may be the Nipmuck version of "War and Peace."
www.nytimes.com /2004/11/27/opinion/l27lake.html?ex=1259298000&en=8ed5fd7a24e5167d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt   (210 words)

  
 My Recent Water Skiing Injury
For most of my life, one of my favorite activities has been water skiing.
I grew up on Webster Lake, which is otherwise known as Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
I still keep a boat there at my parents house, which is only 45 minutes from where I live, and I try to get there as much as I can during the summer to ski.
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 FARK.com: (374157) Let's agree that we'll refer to it herein as Lake C. After all, Lake ...
Let's agree that we'll refer to it herein as Lake C. After all, Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is a tad cumbersome
Seriously, I thought that the R in Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg wasn't in the word I learned.
The Name is painted on the wall of the cafeteria at the Bartlett High School on 52 Lake Parkway, along with a mural map on the cement block wall.
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 "hummm... i didn't know that" - Asylum Forums
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music....
The world's longest-named lake has 45 letters (Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg)...
Cats can make over 1,000 different vocal sounds, and dogs can make only about 10...
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 Residents protective of lake's long name / Don't touch a letter in Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
Residents protective of lake's long name / Don't touch a letter in Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
Even for the locals who live around this sprawling central Massachusetts lake with the even more sprawling name, Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg -- the longest place name in the country -- is not for the tied of tongue.
Now that would have made a catchy Ethel Merman song.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/11/28/MNGEBA101D1.DTL&type=printable   (1260 words)

  
 What's the Name of That Lake? It's Hard to Say
The Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg team cheer can only be done at halftime it takes so long.
Oh yes, now I remember, Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg knocked me out of the National Spelling Bee in the Final Round.
I lost to some kid who was home schooled at got the word: Cat.
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 Acronyms.... - Neowin.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
EXCELLENT - Entering Xylidine Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Ed Licked Lice...Even Night Ticks.
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg - America's longest place, it refers to a lake near Webster, Massachusetts
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-> Even for the locals, this sprawling central Massachusetts -> lake with the even more sprawling name, Lake -> Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg -- the longest -> place name in the country -- is not for the tied of tongue.
It would be self-referentially stupid, the best type of stupid there is. This sentence wishes it were that stupid.
Rule #1 of life in these United States: If you ever get a consensus, it's wrong.
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 Michael MacDonald's Home Page
It's been a couple of years since I've done any writing but click the writing link to see some books and articles that I have written.
The My Town link will tell you a little about my home town of Webster and my home on the shores of Webster Lake otherwise known as Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
The weather on the shores of beautiful Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg:
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 Christine Cimoch's Lake Animals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
I live on Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, or Webster Lake for short.
Located in Webster Massachusetts near the borders of Connecticut and Rhode Island
They like to go under water for about 10 seconds, and then pop back up to the top.
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 Wecome to OldeWebster
Hence the Indian designation Chargoggagoggmanchauggagogg meaning "Englishmen at Manchaug," came into use.
Later they added their original Indian descriptive name, and the entire designation becomes "Englishmen at Manchaug at the Fishing Place at the Boundary" -- or Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
Despite this official knowledge, the lake - now descending too often to the designation of Webster Lake - is known the world over by the humorous translation "You Fish on Your Side, I Fish on My Side, Nobody Fish in the Middle".
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 Second Chance Worship member   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
I grew up in Webster, Massachusetts, not very far from the shores of Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
Someone may think I like long complicated names, but you can call me Joe.
Someone may think I'm rather corny, but you can call me a child of God.
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 Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Here are some of the references it came up with:
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (n.) - Indian name for a Massachusetts lake ("You fish on your side, I fish on my side, nobody fish in the middle.")
The following question and answer appeared in the "Ask the Globe" section of the Boston Globe on Friday, July 6, 1990.
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 polyglot conspiracy » Blog Archive » Word Activism. Word.
In more news on impassioned wordsmithery, the NYT has a piece about a lake in central Massachusetts whose name no one can spell properly, much less pronounce: Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
Apparently, the downfall of the lake’s name is but a hint of worse things to come for its community.
These days, the lake’s homeowners, through the Webster Lake Association, are battling another consequence of modernity: environmental fallout, including contaminated water runoff and rapacious water weeds…
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Near the town of Webster in southern Massachusetts there is a small lake with a long name: Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
The correct translation, from the original Native American language, refers to Englishmen fishing at a certain place, near a boundary.
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 Massachusetts -- Shopping in Worcester County -- Baughan's Northeast Guide
Webster -- EbLens Casual Clothing and Footwear - Sells name brand casual clothing, active wear and footwear.
Webster -- Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg T-shirts - Our (Webster) Lake T-shirt is made of 50/50 cotton and poly.
editor's note -- Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is the longest name in America.
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 Toponymy - Asylum Forums
On this list California has Rancho Cucamonga (which is given the distinction of being an inherently funny word), Weed (which is cool), and Zzyzx (which has a silly history).
And Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Massachusetts, ("Englishmen at Manchaug at the Fishing Place at the Boundary", or "You Fish on Your Side, I Fish on My Side, Nobody Fish in the Middle"), Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is located in Alberta, Canada.
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