To: blu
That’s a nod to Father Marquette and the Chippewa/Ojibwa French influence.
Sault [Sainte Marie] is pronounced “soo”. Obscure free association.
967 posted on
05/02/2018 11:12:38 AM PDT by
Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Prounced “coo-ing”. And Sault St. Marie is just call “The Soo” in my little part of Michigan.
972 posted on
05/02/2018 11:16:32 AM PDT by
blu
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Sault [Sainte Marie] is pronounced “soo”. Obscure free association. Man, I should've thought of that one myself. I biked through there a few years back; watched a big honking freighter going through the locks.
1,381 posted on
05/02/2018 7:42:29 PM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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