LAST EDITED ON Mar-20-14 AT 09:35 PM (EDT)
 
>>>Is Millinocket pronounced differently from how it is spelled? I've
>>>been saying "Mill-in-ocket", with the "ocket" as in "rocket."
>>
>>That's close; the middle syllable is usually sort of semi-elided, with
>>the vowel stuck on the end of "mill" as a schwa and the "n" attached
>>to the remainder of the word.
>
>Milla-nocket?

Pretty much, yeah. I don't remember what it's supposed to mean; strangely enough, it does not refer to the fact that there was a paper mill here, as it is a Penobscot word and therefore presumably not referential to 19th-century industrial installations. It's one of those natural-feature place names that means something like "the place where the river forks" or "three big rocks and a bent tree" or "Darmok and Jalaad at Tanagra" or some similar thing.

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