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#44, RE: For Love of the Grammer Nazi
Posted by pjmoyer on Mar-20-14 at 10:54 PM
In response to message #35
>>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.

According to Wikipedia, it means "the land of many islands", after all the islands in the Penobscot River. Mind, the town was named in 1901, -after- the Great Northern Paper Company mill was begun, so said translation may be a little suspect.

--- Philip





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