[PRCo] Re: A Last Question on Derry

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Fred Schneider wrote:

> 
> And Luh-trob  or Lay-trob?

The former. Moses spelled his name Cleaveland. Hellam, Hallam. We already
established that places can do whatever they want with their names, so why
bother worrying about what it's derived from. The locals won't.

> We know about Ver-sails and Ver-sigh, and Du-Bwa and Du-Bois.  Maybe
> some of those from out of the area really don't know.