How Do You Pronounce "Watervliet"?
... Amy ...
had us stumped.
--Amy
Woodswun
>On my recent and wonderful trip to Upstate, this was the only one that
>had us stumped.
watervuhLEET
Say the "vuh" part of "vuhLEET" quickly. Figure you pretty much know how to
say the "water" part .... ;-)
Woods
Krystyna L
is.........here's my answer:
water-V-leat
I hope this helps!
KL
"... Amy ..." <avo...@qwest.net> wrote in message news:<3C551904...@qwest.net>...
Texensis
| had us stumped.
|
| --Amy
|
Should have been "Van Schaick".....
Trudi Marrapodi
wood...@hotmail.com (Woodswun) wrote:
A friend of mine whose husband sometimes had projects there called it
"watervleet."
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... Amy ...
You have saved me the mortification of pronouncing it "Water-Vlee-ay" in
public. (D'oh!)
:-)
--Amy
Tom Hand
"Phreddy Phlintstone" <phreddy_phlint...@yahoo.com> wrote in
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> instead of Lay-thum, or the small town in Washington County that many
> newscasters like to call Heb-Run, after the city in Palestine, when in
> fact it's called He-Brun here.
>
> Phreddy
That's because most of those TV types are just passing though the area on
their way from Albuquerque to Tampa, on their way up the career ladder.
They don't have time to stop and try to learn anything about the place while
they are here, because they know they won't be here long and it will soon be
just a memory.
Allegra Boverman
speaking of towns like Watervliet that can be hard to spell or prounounce:
a couple years ago a bus from
Menands collided in Central Bridge (near Schoharie along Route 88 towards
Albany) with a dump truck or some truck. kids were injured, bus driver
cited, i believe. well, every single time that a story or brief ran about
this incident, the municipality of Menands was consistently misspelled in
a certain daily newspaper in that region.
it was misspelled Memands, and even AFTER I POINTED IT OUT SEVERAL TIMES
to the city editor and the reporter, it STILL got misspelled. i showed
them a map. i should have photographed the road sign.
it's not that far away from where they were
that they should have been unfamiliar with it. boy was i mad at the time.
i still make jokes about it with my friends from albany whenever we pass the
exit for Menands.
--
Allegra Boverman all...@cif.rochester.edu
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to use my hands, not just my head."
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billnech
"Tom Hand" <troy...@altavista.com> wrote in message
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Albany's Channel 13. He's been around for ever and knows the area. Plus, I
often have the feeling that he's having his own little chuckle at some of
the idiosyncrasies of the region.
Allegra Boverman
: On 4 Feb 2002 02:44:44 GMT, Allegra Boverman
:>a couple years ago a bus from
:>Menands collided in Central Bridge (near Schoharie along Route 88 towards
:>Albany) with a dump truck or some truck. kids were injured, bus driver
:>cited, i believe. well, every single time that a story or brief ran about
:>this incident, the municipality of Menands was consistently misspelled in
:>a certain daily newspaper in that region.
: That intersection on Rt. 7 is notorious for crashes though the only
: way I could see it being dangerous is if the sun was in was in one of
: the drivers eyes. I don't remember the time of day or if they ever
: determined what the problem was, other than a possible senior moment
: as the driver of the bus was in his 60's.
yeah. i forget also.
i think a light was installed there by now, but it's been a few months
since i was there.
:>it was misspelled Memands, and even AFTER I POINTED IT OUT SEVERAL TIMES
:>to the city editor and the reporter, it STILL got misspelled. i showed
:>them a map. i should have photographed the road sign.
:>
:>it's not that far away from where they were
:>that they should have been unfamiliar with it. boy was i mad at the time.
:>i still make jokes about it with my friends from albany whenever we pass the
:>exit for Menands.
: I live in Glens Falls, it used to be called Glen's Falls until the
: postal service asked that it be changed because they were trying to do
: away with punctuation in addresses. Most people not from this area
: drop the S in Glens, add an N, or both. Others drop the S in Falls
: like we're commemorating some guy that slipped on something and fell.
: The best I've ever seen was mail that we got at work that had the city
: as Glans Falls, maybe they thought we were the bris capital of the
: world, with a mohel on every corner. :-)
very nice. :P
it's like Middleburg and Middleburgh. and other such towns who can't
decide how their name should be spelled over the years. :)
Tom Hand
>
> That intersection on Rt. 7 is notorious for crashes though the only
> way I could see it being dangerous is if the sun was in was in one of
> the drivers eyes. I don't remember the time of day or if they ever
> determined what the problem was, other than a possible senior moment
> as the driver of the bus was in his 60's.
The driver was 79, not in his sixties. I don't know of many people in their
60's who experience any more "senior moments" than people in their 30's,
unless they have Alzheimer's, which also affects people in their 40's and
50's. Even many people of that driver's advanced age or older have all
their faculties, although many don't because of the ravages of various
diseases.
Bill
>
> >
> As much as I generally dislike local news...I kind of like John Dague of
> Albany's Channel 13. He's been around for ever and knows the area. Plus, I
> often have the feeling that he's having his own little chuckle at some of
> the idiosyncrasies of the region.
Whoops! That's Ed Dague!
Tom Hand
> they doing letting a 79 year old drive a school bus, that's plain
> stupid. The Federal Aviation Administration requires commercial pilots
> to turn in their licenses at age 60. Those passengers who fly have the
> ability to refuse to board a plane if they want, but children are
> captives on the school bus.
>
> Phreddy
There is no reason to believe a 79 year old cannot properly drive a bus. He
should be tested yearly, physically, on the road, and by written test, and
if he passes he is as qualified as anybody. You seem to be blaming the
accident on the driver's age, but it isn't only 79 year-olds who have had
accidents running stop signs. I don't think that there is any evidence that
the driver's age contributed to the accident.
As for those pilots, there is a class action suit in the courts right now
trying to overturn it. It does seem patently discriminatory. Again, there
is no scientific or medical evidence that shows that someone in his 60's is
any less safe behind the controls of an airplane than anyone else is. In
fact intuition would seem to indicate the opposite because the older pilots
would usually be the most experienced ones.
Tom Hand
> On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 21:42:01 GMT, "Tom Hand" <troy...@altavista.com>
> wrote:
>
> >There is no reason to believe a 79 year old cannot properly drive a bus.
>
> timing of someone in their 30's, 40's even 50's. My father is 87 years
> old and a safe driver but he can't hit the brake as fast as he used to
> so he leaves more room between him and the car in front of him but
> someday someone is going to fly out in front of him and he'll end up
> hitting them.
>
> How many sober middle age folks do you hear of that confuse the gas
> with the brake or drive from reverse, and go through mini-mart
> storefronts? AARP has successfully lobbied, in most states, to prevent
> testing of older drivers at a more frequent rate than the general
> population.
>
> Phreddy
I think that everyone, not just older people, should have to take periodic
on the road, and written drivers tests, and should have to have some sort of
certification from a doctor that they are physically able to drive safely.
That would screen out those gas pedal - brake mix-ups plus a lot of others
that don't belong on the road. However, I think it is prejudicial and wrong
to make the assumption that a certain class of drivers are worse than
another class of drivers. Statistically it used to be teenage boys who were
the worst, but recently that has shifted to teenage girls. But that doesn't
prove they are all bad, many of them are probably as good drivers as anyone,
and better than many.
Nikki Torchia
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i only wondered because i'm trying to research a relative who came from the area & moved to monroe county & he was born in dec 1799---henry l. clow.
