Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihlpm!mcb From: mcb@ihlpm.UUCP (m. baker) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: bizarre place names Message-ID: <447@ihlpm.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 23:11:01 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpm.447 Posted: Fri Aug 23 23:11:01 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 12:56:48 EDT References: <268@inuxm.UUCP> <8505@watarts.UUCP> <333@baylor.UUCP> <314@tove.UUCP> <358@rti-sel.UUCP> <735@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 16 > Eau Gallie, Fla (sound it out) > -- > > Byron C. Howes > ...!{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bch Eau Gallie is actaully pronounced as \oh galley\. It doesn't exist as a town any more. In 1969 it merged with the town of Melbourne. Among the names to pick from for the new city name was Eau Gallie, Melbourne, and Holopaw Beach. (Now that would be a weird name beacuse Holopaw is 25 miles from the ocean and in the middle of the swamps. -- -- Mark