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Helen wrote:
> "John McWilliams" <jpmcw.RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>>> Over here we don't tend to name towns and cities by their nearest body of
>>> water.
>>>
>> Hmm. Stokely-on-Trent? Henley-on-Thames? Lake District?
>>
>
> Stokely? Perhaps you mean Stoke on Trent? The town is called Stoke; it's on
> the River Trent.
> Henley is a town ON the Thames.
> The Lake District is that - a district; there is no town by that name.
>

Surely you could help out with some new names both spelt correctly and
bolstering my badly fading memory of names places in the UK that go
against your thesis......please?

And I did mean Stoke on Trent.... all the dashes are now dropped?? And
no one thinks of Henley over here without thinking of that river, and
pink socks.

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"Bill K" <msuwkrull RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Over here we don't tend to name towns and cities by their nearest body of
>> water.
>> But surely it would be cooler if you actually were *in* Lake Charles? Is
>> it
>> that sort of body of water?
> --
> It's a lake, quite polluted, unfortunately, so the times I'm actually
> in it is when I capsize my sailboat.
>
> It's regretable that you're only here to learn because it sounds as if
> you are quite successful as a photographer and we could learn quite a
> bit from you. And, you are very witty and I never fail to laugh when
> you post. Sometimes my sarcasm gets out of hand. Must be an ego thing.
> Bill in Lake Charles.
>

Ah, pollution, the scourge of the 20th and 21st centuries.
I live on an island, surrounded by greenish-brownish water. I have thought
that if I ever found it necessary to commit suicide then a glass of it would
suffice.
Thank you Bill for the nice comments. I think I'm quite successful, but
none of us has nothing more to learn, and I'm not sure I have anything worth
teaching. I'm quite recent to freelance professional photography, having
initially been a medical photographer for a while, but I'm doing OK and made
the right move I think.

H
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Iceland is a fascinating place although I wouldn't live there. I spent
three days there after the plane had problems. Good old Icelandic
Air--they picked the tab and it was a nice three days although very
cold, of course. There's so many place I want to visit. Given the heat
here in Louisiana Iceland sounds good right about now.
Bill in Lake Charles
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"John McWilliams" <jpmcw.RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Helen wrote:
>> Stokely? Perhaps you mean Stoke on Trent? The town is called Stoke; it's
>> on the River Trent.
>> Henley is a town ON the Thames.
>> The Lake District is that - a district; there is no town by that name.
>>
>
> Surely you could help out with some new names both spelt correctly and
> bolstering my badly fading memory of names places in the UK that go
> against your thesis......please?
>
> And I did mean Stoke on Trent.... all the dashes are now dropped?? And no
> one thinks of Henley over here without thinking of that river, and pink
> socks.
>

Well, a glance at my road map here reveals that you were partly right, it is
Stoke-on-Trent, and there's also a Stoke-upon-Trent, though they may be the
same place. Stoke Mandeville and Stoke Newington are dashless. We have a
Toft next Newton and a Preston upon the Weald Moors, Mareham on the Hill,
and Hinton-in-the-Hedges, all of these are correctly dashed, but I can't say
why there may or may not be dashes in a place name. But I did find a place
which seems to go partly against my earlier statement, Hamble-le-Rice, which
is on the River Hamble. I'll leave you with places called Pity Me, Pratt's
Bottom, Zeal Monachorum, and the extraordinary Twatt.
H.
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Helen wrote:
> "John McWilliams" <jpmcw DeleteThis @comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> Helen wrote:
>>> Stokely? Perhaps you mean Stoke on Trent? The town is called Stoke; it's
>>> on the River Trent.
>>> Henley is a town ON the Thames.
>>> The Lake District is that - a district; there is no town by that name.
>>>
>> Surely you could help out with some new names both spelt correctly and
>> bolstering my badly fading memory of names places in the UK that go
>> against your thesis......please?
>>
>> And I did mean Stoke on Trent.... all the dashes are now dropped?? And no
>> one thinks of Henley over here without thinking of that river, and pink
>> socks.
>>
>
> Well, a glance at my road map here reveals that you were partly right, it is
> Stoke-on-Trent, and there's also a Stoke-upon-Trent, though they may be the
> same place. Stoke Mandeville and Stoke Newington are dashless. We have a
> Toft next Newton and a Preston upon the Weald Moors, Mareham on the Hill,
> and Hinton-in-the-Hedges, all of these are correctly dashed, but I can't say
> why there may or may not be dashes in a place name. But I did find a place
> which seems to go partly against my earlier statement, Hamble-le-Rice, which
> is on the River Hamble. I'll leave you with places called Pity Me, Pratt's
> Bottom, Zeal Monachorum, and the extraordinary Twatt.
>
It must be a must go to and mail from place, same as U.S.'s Blue Balls,
PA, Scared Sheep, Wyoming, and Paris, Maine. One of them I made up.

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"Bill K" <msuwkrull.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> --
> I quite sure you have a lot to teach, Helen. I lived in Grimsby for
> several year which, as its name sugests, is pretty grim. But I went to
> school in Suffolk and it was very nice there. All in all I miss
> Britain a lot.
> Bill in Lake Charles
>

Hmm, yes, Grimsby is not our nicest sort of place, though it does have the
sea. I live in a very flat and quite sort of featureless area of the
country, Berkshire, which isn't very photogenic, and about as far from sea
as you can be for England. Suffolk and neighbouring Norfolk have more to
offer photographically, though none of these places can compete with
Iceland, which I really MUST try to get to some day!
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