Can you say Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
(pronounced
Char-gog-a-gog-man-chug-a-gog-chu-bun-a-gung-a-mahg)? It's a Native American name for a Massachusetts lake. It means, "You fish on your side; I'll fish on mine; no one fishes in the middle." The biggest mouthfuls on the map:
1. El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de la
Porciuncula, California
2. Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Massachusetts
3. La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asis, New
Mexico
4. Nunathloogagamiutbingoi Dunes, Alaska
5. Winchester on the Severn, Maryland
Source: The Top 10 of Everything 1998, by Russell Ash (DK
Publishing, Inc.)
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