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Maritime place names have always baffled Upper Canadian radio announcers. A five stanza poem, “Sweet maiden of Passamaquoddy,” by James DeMilne, praises two brooks, the Skoodawabskooksis and the Skoodawabskook, telling us: <br> | Maritime place names have always baffled Upper Canadian radio announcers. A five stanza poem, “Sweet maiden of Passamaquoddy,” by James DeMilne, praises two brooks, the Skoodawabskooksis and the Skoodawabskook, telling us: <br> | ||
{{Block indent|''Meduxnekeag’s waters are bluer;<br>Nepisiguit’s pools are more black;<br>More green is the bright Oromocto<br>And browner the Petitcodiac…''}} | |||
<br>You get the idea, and you can read the entire poem in Alan Rayburn’s essential reference work, ''Geographical Names of New Brunswick ''(1975), together with two interesting essays by W.F. Ganong on “place nomenclature.” | <br>You get the idea, and you can read the entire poem in Alan Rayburn’s essential reference work, ''Geographical Names of New Brunswick ''(1975), together with two interesting essays by W.F. Ganong on “place nomenclature.” | ||
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