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Sirannon
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Illyria
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*---- Wisconsin, USA ----*
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Robbie
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And welcome to the forum!
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ElennaElemirre
Joined: 07 Mar 2005
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Location: East of the great sea
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........Surrey, BC, Canada...........
We do not live in igloos, have pet beavers or say eh alot........
I can totally understand how you feel nienor.  |
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Leaward
Joined: 11 Dec 2004
Posts: 25
Location: a tiny padded room in Arnor
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| ElennaElemirre wrote: | ........Surrey, BC, Canada...........
We do not live in igloos, have pet beavers or say eh alot........
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Nope, no igloos, but my husband might dispute you on the next two. Although perhaps that's a little TMI? (Yes, I even type the 'eh') Sorry, it is a bit of a stereotype but perhaps it's more regional than countrywide?  |
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Sirannon
Joined: 04 Jan 2005
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Location: Denmark
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| Robbie wrote: | | And welcome to the forum! |
Thanks a bunch! Sorry for the late answer. Been having problems with the computer. I ended up having to reinstall windows. Argh  ! |
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Elennare
Joined: 25 Aug 2004
Posts: 75
Location: Edinburgh, UK
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Hi guys, sorry for being away so long but I've a chaotic year.
To put if briefly, if have been sidetracked by the following:
1) two friend's weddings
2) 2 x 30th birthday parties
3) 6 x family Birthdays bewteen April and August
4) changing bank acount and mortgage (after getting fed up of our current bank's f***kups)
5) trying to organise personal pensions (thank god for my parent's IFA, as slightest mention of "investments" to any bank gets them frothing at the mouth for a "financial review" wherein they try to sell you as many of their crap products as possible)
6) learning to drive - it's stressful. What bothers me more is the fact that my other half has had (two or three) more lesson and hasn't even booked his theory test (for the non-UK people, this is simple test of your knowlegde of road law and a test of your ability to perceive pending hazards, which you have to pass before you can even book your practical test), whereas I have already passed the theory test and my driving instrucutor is suggest I book a test date (though this can have a delay of 3-4 week).
7) Working a company of five people, as the second longest- serving member of staff, and having to deal with the longest-serving member of staff going on maternity leave.
And the answer to the actual question is: UK, currently living in Edinburgh. |
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LuthienTinuviel
Joined: 29 Dec 2003
Posts: 354
Location: Dancing in the clouds.
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| ghettoelleth wrote: | | LuthienTinuviel wrote: | 
*sighs* Oh, well. |
Okay, I can be very accomodating Luth.
Heaven/Malaysia/the Magellan/KK/sunset from Laban Rata on Kinabalu/the really cool and very tiny Bajau in Mengkabon/ and finally, the very deceiving Timpohon gate that makes you think, cool, we're going on a 3 trail hike. Evil gate.
Malaysia - The Official Capital of the solar system
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Lolz... don't tell me you haven't tried the infamous Durian? Smells vile, tastes good. Not for the weak-hearted.
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Ania
Joined: 08 Sep 2003
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Okay, I have a question, how come there are so many names like 'Surrey' and such in Canada and America when they are exactly the same over here? If you hadn't guessed, I'm from the UK, have been in the bonny highlands of scotland all year with views like this:
http://www.travelphoto.net/a-photo-a-day/wordpress/2005/04/06/boat-on-loch-morlich/
(went sailing on this Loch often)
and now I've come home to southern england where it's flat as a pancake ... *yearns for her mountains* HUMPH! |
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NeumeIndil
Joined: 06 Jun 2005
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Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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A lot of stuff in the U.S. and Canada got named after places in Europe and the U.K. that settlers here came from. Hence the Plymouth colony, and small towns like Berlin, Lima, Dublin, (New) Waterford, (East) Liverpool, and Poland, OH (just off the top of my head). Some think it was homesickness, some a simple lack of creativity.
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Lenale
Joined: 14 Aug 2004
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The New York neighbourhood of Harlem was named after my birth town Haarlem (in Holland), and Brooklyn after Breukelen (try pronouncing that... the 'eu' is the sound you make if someone punches you in the belly hard  ).
To make things even, there's a village in the south-east of Holland called America.
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Rhapsody
Joined: 11 Apr 2004
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Location: Maglor's Lap
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| Lenale wrote: | The New York neighbourhood of Harlem was named after my birth town Haarlem (in Holland), and Brooklyn after Breukelen (try pronouncing that... the 'eu' is the sound you make if someone punches you in the belly hard ).
To make things even, there's a village in the south-east of Holland called America. |
The province of Limburg to be precise I've been on holiday there once.
How about Vancouver: named after the Dutch city Coevoorden.
We once 'owned' New York, so it might have been named New Amsterdam But no worries, four towns in the States have the name Amsterdam, in Canada just one town. The States also have a Rotterdam.. Then there is a Borculo, Zeeland, Watervliet, Vriesland, Drenthe...
Here are some images:
http://www.telegraaf.nl/reiskrant/reisreportages_archief/article24047441.ece?rss
Block Island, R.I. Named after the Dutchman Adriaen Block, who explored the area in the early seventeenth century.
The Bowery, N.Y. This section of New York City owes its name to the farm, or "bouwerij" in Dutch, owned by Peter Stuyvesant that was located there.
The Bronx, N.Y. This New York City borough takes its name from a New Netherland settler, Jonas Bronck, who had a farm there.
Bushwick, N.Y. Originally called Boswyck, or "woods district" in Dutch.
Coney Island, N.Y. Originally called Conyne Eylandt, or "rabbit island" in Dutch.
Catskill, N.Y. Originally named Kats Kil, or "cats stream" in Dutch. The many other place-names of the region ending in kill are also of Dutch origin.
Hells Gate, N.Y. This treacherous set of currents in New York's East River was designated Helle Gadt on a Dutch map of 1639.
Long Island, N.Y. The explorer Adriaen Block called the island Lange Eylandt in 1614.
Rhode Island This name is said to be derived from Roode Eylandt, or "red island" in Dutch.
Sandy Hook, N.J. The name stems from what the Dutch called the place: Sant Hoek.
Spuyten Duyvil, N.Y. A New York City district whose name (meaning "devil's spout" in Dutch) refers to some dangerous currents at the northern end of the Harlem River.
Staten Island, N.Y. Dutch settlers named the island Staten Eylandt in honor of the States General, the governing body of the United Provinces.
Yonkers, N.Y. This name is believed to derive from the title of an early Dutch settler, Jonkheer Adriaen Van der Donck, who had an estate in the area. Van der Donck wrote one of the first accounts of the New Netherland settlement.
Gonna shut up now
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Lenale
Joined: 14 Aug 2004
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Conyne Eylandt... love that spelling
(For the people not that involved in the little Dutch meeting here... it would be 'Konijnen Eiland' now. Possibly without the space between the words.)
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Rhapsody
Joined: 11 Apr 2004
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Location: Maglor's Lap
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| Lenale wrote: | Conyne Eylandt... love that spelling
(For the people not that involved in the little Dutch meeting here... it would be 'Konijnen Eiland' now. Possibly without the space between the words.) |
Yay!!!!! *hugs her fellow dutchwoman*
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ghettoelleth
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| LuthienTinuviel wrote: | | Lolz... don't tell me you haven't tried the infamous Durian? Smells vile, tastes good. Not for the weak-hearted. |
Oh lord, that's that armadillo looking "fruit" with the yellow goo inside that smells like dead armpit, isn't it? Not even when they told me it was an aphrodesiac.  You know, in Kota Kinabalu you can even get Micky D's or KFC, but if you want to get away from the touristy areas, you leave all that behind and end up trying to decide which animal face is more appetizing. but EVERYwhere you go there's good old satay. Don't care if it was of dog meat, at least the face wasn't still attached, lol. Reminds me of when we go to see my gramma in mexico, "Tata, PLEASE cut the feet off the chicken before you serve it?" 
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