[PRCo] Re: Good Gosh!

[Herb Brannon]

Moses Cleaveland's statue stands in the Southwest Quadrant of Public Square (in front of the Terminal Tower) and the spelling is "C l e a v e l a n d". Don't know about the newspaper story. I never heard that one before. 
Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net> wrote:  Actually, Ken, you spelled it correctly, just the way Moses Cleaveland did 
over 200 years ago.

The story (not sure if it's true) is that sometime around 1800 a newspaper 
there didn't have enough space to typeset "Cleaveland" in their masthead, so 
they shortened it to "Cleveland", and the revised spelling stuck.

Bob 5/5/08

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Subject: [PRCo] Good Gosh!


>I can spell "Cleveland", really!
>
> K.
> 





Herb Brannon
   
  Greetings From America's North Coast