[78-L] 78-L And the winner is...(was Funny Town Names)

Taylor Bowie bowiebks at isomedia.com
Mon Jan 11 18:04:51 PST 2010


What do residents of Coxsackie call themselves?  Or,  more importantly, 
what do other people call them?

Taylor (I'm a Seattleite)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Miller" <smille1 at nycap.rr.com>
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> Yes, good old Coxsackie.  I live about 20 miles North of it in an Albany
> 'burb.  It's actually pronounced by locals "Cook-sock-y", although when I
> was a 411 operator, people from other areas would call asking for a number
> in "Cock-suk-y" almost daily.  I always managed not to laugh, but don't 
> ask
> me how....
>
> Schroon Lake is beautiful, by the way...
>
> Sean (a native and well traveled upstate New Yorker)
>
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> Coxsackie, NY about 20 miles south of Albany just off Rt. 87.
> Unlike Peggy's Crotch in colorful NY State it is on the map.
> I discovered it in the mid forties on the front of a (Greyhound??) bus
> while traveling to another notably named and lovely NY burg, Schroon Lake.
> JD
>
>
>
>> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:19:04 -0500
>> From: Bill Knowlton <udmacon1 at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: [78-L] Funny Town Names
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>> *Peggy's Crotch, Cayuga County NY (not on any map, of course, but folks 
>> in
>
>> Cato NY know where it is...)
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