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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>Thank you most kindly,
gentle sir. I know more today than I did yesterday. It must be a
good day.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>And for the record, I WAS
asking for your comments. I read every one you write. Sometimes I
groan and ignore them, sometimes I smile, knowing I agree, but not letting you
know it, and sometimes I comment. So there!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Jeanene<BR>A child born with Hydranencephaly is one of Life's Little
Miracles.<BR>They live, laugh, and love -- all without a brain.<BR><A
href="http://www.hydranencephaly.com">www.hydranencephaly.com</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=jeanenehea@comcast.net
href="mailto:jeanenehea@comcast.net">Red</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 24, 2006 5:26
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [GCFL-discuss] You Know
You're From or In Pennsylvania If...</DIV>
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<DIV>I can't believe this. Jeanene is ASKING my to comment on a subject?
(Where are the emoticons so I can put a friendly smile here, accepting the
joke in good humor?) </DIV>
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<DIV>Siarlys</DIV>
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<DIV>OK, here goes:</DIV>
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<DIV>On Tue, 23 May 2006 16:11:18 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <<A href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</A>>
writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>Well, then, I want a
little explanation of the following words as you know them to
be:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>hex sign -- a colorful design painted on barns and homes in
Pennsylvania Deutsch (they aren't really Dutch, they're German) areas,
believed to ward off spells, hexes, evil eyes, and other such hazards. Also
sold to tourists to take home to other states as interesting
decorations.</DIV>
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<DIV>"state store" -- in some states, sale of alcohol, or at least of hard
liquor, is limited to state-owned, or a limited number of state-licensed
stores, called "state stores." Corner grocery stores, convenience stores,
etc. don't carry it, althought they may in some states be allowed to carry
beer, and separate wine stores may or may not be allowed.</DIV>
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<DIV>"sticky buns" -- a yeast roll with a sticky caramel syrup poured over
and hardened, often baked with pecans or walnuts, sometimes with
raisins.</DIV>
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<DIV>Scrapple -- I don't recall the exact ingredients, but it is a
gelatinous food made from the hooves and some internal organs of slaughtered
animals. Considered a delicacy in times when meat was scarce and every bit
had to be used.</DIV>
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<DIV>commonwealth -- the colonies of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania were
commonwealths, meaning to a limited extent that the government derived from
the common agreement of whatever minority of the population were considered
full citizens (generally requiring ownership of a certain value of
property). Pennsylvania was originally a proprietorship: the personal
jurisdiction of the Penn family, and became a commonwealth when the Penns
were displaced. New York was a royal dominion, New Jersey was granted to a
couple of nobility as their personal estate, Maryland was initially the
proprietorship of Lord Baltimore, but that didn't last either. Virginia and
South Carolina were crown colonies, ruled more or less directly by the king.
But being so far away, they did have their own representative assemblies.
And then, the people who lived in these places got their own ideas about how
to govern what, or some of them did. About a third of the colonial
population supported the revolution, another third opposed, and the
remaining third watched which way the wind was blowing, while profitting
from both sides at every opportunity.</DIV>
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<DIV>townships</DIV>
<DIV>bouroughs</DIV>
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<DIV>The meaning of both terms varies, and often overlaps. "County" was, in
Europe, the domain of a count, less than an earl, who was less than a duke,
who was less than a king. What we call county is in England called a shire,
which is the domain in which a shire-reeve (sheriff) is responsible for law
and order. Townships in New York are semi-unincorporated areas, smaller than
a county, larger than a city, which in Wisconsin would be called a town.
Except, in New York City, which is made up of literally five counties, each
county government is called a burough. Burough can also mean an
unincorporated rural area, or be used in the sense that village is in other
states: an incorporated municipality smaller than a city. I think burough
may be used in place of county in some states, but I'm not sure. (I don't
know everything).</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>I have always assumed that
township, commonwealth and borough are the same thing as county, but now
that doesn't seem quite right...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080
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