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Lake with 45-letter name has spelling errors

hosted.ap.org — Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in Webster has one of the world's longest place names. It's been spelled many different ways over the years. Some locals have given up and simply call it Lake Webster.

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  • mikbunn, on 04/21/2009, -5/+44Translation: Lake Idioticphoeneticspellingofindianwordpreviouslyunwrittenbutitsagoodtourismlure
  • HeDiggMe, on 04/21/2009, -1/+26I got extra credit in 5th grade for spelling this correctly. Then I never saw the word again anywhere until just now, so I assumed it was from an obscure story.

    Even google maps calls it Webster Lake
    http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Chargoggag ...
  • infinitejones, on 04/22/2009, -1/+23I'll see your Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg and raise you Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch...

    http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a ...
  • borez, on 04/22/2009, -0/+12I'll take your Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

    and raise you

    Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangihang ...
  • inactive, on 04/22/2009, -3/+12tl;dr
  • flamyngo, on 04/22/2009, -1/+9Lake Titticaca is way cooler.
  • 007isbond1, on 04/22/2009, -1/+8thats what she said
  • RandomGorilla, on 04/22/2009, -0/+7I think someone was gonna name it 'Lake Charlie' but then started to throw up... a lot.
  • narc, on 04/22/2009, -1/+8I'll take your
    Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
    And raise you
    กรุงเทพมหานครอมรรัตนโกสินทร์มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลกภพ นพรัตน์ราชธานีบุรีรมย์อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถานอมรพิมานอวตารสถิตสักกะทัตติยะวิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์ (Bangkok)
  • 1807, on 04/22/2009, -0/+6and Mount Wannahockalougi from the fish tank in Finding Nemo
  • Sagags, on 04/22/2009, -0/+6***** YOU SPAMMER!

    YOU'VE BEEN REPORTED!
  • FriniK, on 04/22/2009, -0/+5that there is quite a mouthful
  • lowdose, on 04/22/2009, -0/+4A+++ would spell again
  • inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+4Alright big guy... impressive, but lets see you pull that off on a mic.
  • Sagags, on 04/22/2009, -0/+4PROTIP:
    For full effect imagine Samuel L Jackson reading this comment with a passion.
  • teamgwho, on 04/22/2009, -0/+4Perhaps next time they won't hire Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern Schplenden Schlitter Crasscrenbon Fried Digger Dangle Dungle Burstein von Knacker Thrasher Apple Banger Horowitz Ticolensic Grander Knotty Spelltinkle Grandlich Grumblemeyer Spelterwasser Kürstlich Himbleeisen Bahnwagen Gutenabend Bitte Eine Nürnburger Bratwustle Gerspurten mit Zweimache Luber Hundsfut Gumberaber Shönendanker Kalbsfleisch Mittler Raucher von Hautkopft of Ulm to do their signage.
  • jedinate, on 04/22/2009, -1/+5I grew up in Webster Mass and went to Bartlett High. Articles like this make me laugh, in 18 years I never heard it called "Lake Webster".

    Webster Lake, yes, but "Lake Webster". No. Every single article I have ever seen on the subject puts the words in that wrong order.

    A fun bar bet is to say the long name for people.
  • ColoursInMyHead, on 04/22/2009, -1/+5There's long names and then there's long names which sound like inane noises toddlers make. This is one of the latter.
  • infinitejones, on 04/22/2009, -0/+4I'm out
  • borez, on 04/22/2009, -0/+4I'm out too. Although I could argue that narc is playing with a different set of cards.
  • emecks, on 04/21/2009, -2/+6I wonder what Webster's call it?

    :P
  • pookydirt, on 04/21/2009, -2/+6"You fish on your side, I fish on my side, and nobody fish in the middle."

    LMAO!!
  • 007isbond1, on 04/22/2009, -1/+4i lol'd
  • inactive, on 04/22/2009, -1/+4Sheesh, everyone knows you never put "ao" after "ggmanch", who's hiring these people?
  • crispa1970, on 04/22/2009, -0/+3hahahaha. thank you for the giggle this morning. :)
  • inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+3lol @ translations:

    The hill of the flute playing by Tamatea — who was blown hither from afar, had a circumcised penis, grazed his knees climbing mountains, fell on the earth, and encircled the land — to his beloved.

    The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one.
  • rentmitchum, on 04/22/2009, -1/+3When trying to say it, I started being like "goga chog rum gog a gog rrrrum pum pum, rum pum, rumpa chumpa chum, rumpa dumpa sting! I rip and I rhyme! I rhyme and I reep! This is how Dylan spit!"

    Who're the greatest 5 rappers alive? Dylan Dylan Dylan Dylan and Dylan..
  • aladrin, on 04/22/2009, -0/+2They're saying it wrong in English there. -sigh- My friends had a wedding there and we got the locals to pronounce it for us.
  • mikbunn, on 04/22/2009, -0/+2Yes short sentence even no error hard is.
  • aladrin, on 04/22/2009, -0/+2The lake doesn't have spelling errors, a few of the signs around town do. That's a pretty big difference.
  • Ibox, on 04/22/2009, -0/+2is he still short?
  • capturedpenguin, on 04/22/2009, -0/+2No.
  • electricsurf, on 04/23/2009, -0/+2agree with crispa....thank you! hahahaha
  • dhulser, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1I don't know why you got dugg down, i'm about a half hour from webster and had lots of friends at bartlett - used to go wake boarding and tubing on webster lake. not lake webster.
  • Tarkaan, on 04/23/2009, -0/+1Some ***** with a time machine did a keyboard mash... Happens all the time, nothing to see here.
  • josh22, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1Go figure. A word with 45 letters and many of them repeats was misspelled. It's time to change the name.
  • hiPpymIck, on 04/22/2009, -1/+2Mount Popacatapetal
  • andrewsavage, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1I have an idea for the longest hangman game ever.
  • t4m5t3r, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1im willing to bet the locals simply call it The Lake!!
  • 007isbond1, on 04/22/2009, -1/+2terrible... just.. terriblee
  • inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1(Nelson) HAHA!
  • gcnaddict, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1What kind of sadist thought this name was a good idea?
  • NoamChimpsky, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1How do they ever fit that on a postcard?
  • Myztry, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1They are concatenated translations of native language descriptions used as place names. So really they are sentences rather than words.
    Place names derived from Aboriginal language tend to be fairly straight forward, with the exception of some doubling (eg. Wagga Wagga)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_pl ...
  • Mtown, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1My spell check says it's spelled wrong regardless of how I spell it.
  • inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1I'm surprised that anyone gives a ***** about spelling errors in this lake's name.
  • bjs3171, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1i bet Sheldon could spell it.
  • PDF84, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1Doesn't work on proper nouns. Duh.
  • novenator, on 04/22/2009, -2/+3Lake Wobegon is jealous
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