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New street signs with Massachusett language translation will be installed in East Cambridge
Boston Globe ^ | December 6, 2023 | By Molly Farrar

Posted on 12/08/2023 4:02:36 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

After more than 2,500 Cambridge residents made their voices heard during the participatory budget vote in 2021, more than 70 new street signs in East Cambridge will include translations into the native Massachusett language.

Sage Carbone, a Cambridge resident, proposed the participatory budget item to add traditional Native translations to city signs, along with commemorating Native American sites in Cambridge with markers.

“Any representation is missing,” she said. Carbone is a member of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island with Nipmuc, Massachusett ancestry.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: History; Local News
KEYWORDS: 2depressing4words; cambridge; indians; isthisthebee; language; massachusetts; signs; translations
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To: ConservativeStatement
A Fun related story:

My Dad was a born and raised in Provincetown, son of a Portuguese fisherman. His Massachusetts dialect remained strong still after 40 years living in Central NY. During a time, my wife was recovering from brain surgery my parents stepped in to help. My Dad took care of my 4 year old daughter during the daytime. When my daughter entered to school, a year later, the teacher told me of her strange “dialect”. I said Boston? She said yes!

81 posted on 12/09/2023 6:29:51 AM PST by Wilum (Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
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To: Mrs. B.S. Roberts
“wicked” is used all over Massachusetts..

Obviously the word has metastasized down from Maine since I left in '77. I never heard it at all growing up until I spent a summer in Yarmouth. I think that was 1959. My cousin used it at the supper table, and I thought Aunt Abby was going to wash his mouth out with soap. Never heard it again in Massachusetts right through '77 when I left for a job in upstate NY. That's how language goes, though. I picked up the word "spendy" during my one year TDY in Minnesota (1999) and I still use it occasionally.

82 posted on 12/09/2023 7:26:20 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Clutch Martin
Most didn’t have personal firearms either,

Not true at all. Virtually every head of household in 1700 had a "firelock" of some kind. It was often the case that he was required to bring it to church every Sunday. General Gage confiscated every gun in Boston beginning in 1768. By some contemporary accounts this was in the thousands, and do remember that the total population of the town back then was under 20,000 souls, exclusive of Redcoats. The famous foray to Concord in April of 1775 was to confiscate a large amount of powder, muskets and at least one cannon stored there.

83 posted on 12/09/2023 7:56:34 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: stanne

“Actually, Keltic is Irish and selltick is Scottish.”

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Odd, then, that the numerous Irish in Boston would (literally) buy that.


84 posted on 12/09/2023 8:43:12 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“Most didn’t have personal firearms either”

1 in 20? 2 in 20 is that number heads of households, which was a census calcuation. Do you also have median income figures?

I was talking more about the horse comment, which median income also figures into.


85 posted on 12/09/2023 8:53:43 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: SamAdams76

Ahqueesh. Which way Martin Luther King Boulevard?

86 posted on 12/09/2023 8:56:59 AM PST by guest7
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“General Gage confiscated every gun in Boston beginning in 1768.”

Which is why the Colonials rushed to the Trenton Armory get muskets and defend the armory.


87 posted on 12/09/2023 8:58:26 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Eccl 10:2

With the exception of the Boston Celtics I guess.

I was in Ireland for a week studying literature with faculty from my university. One was a history teacher with an Ivy League PhD. He told me that thing about the pronunciation what if I know


88 posted on 12/09/2023 9:02:31 AM PST by stanne
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To: Clutch Martin
1 in 20? 2 in 20 is that number heads of households, which was a census calcuation. Do you also have median income figures?

No idea at all where you're going with that.

89 posted on 12/09/2023 12:42:10 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Postulating on how many firearms Gage confiscated. Based on the population figure you threw out there coupled with known census numbers and if census numbers were based solely on heads of households.


90 posted on 12/09/2023 2:21:20 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Eccl 10:2

Because it’s Massachusetts language


91 posted on 12/09/2023 2:27:50 PM PST by Chickensoup
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To: ConservativeStatement

So, what’s native for, “Slow the F- down!” ?


92 posted on 12/09/2023 4:20:35 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Well I think I found the confiscation numbers. According to this website

https://davekopel.org/2A/LawRev/american-revolution-against-british-gun-control.html

“On April 23, 1775, Gage offered the Bostonians the opportunity to leave town if they surrendered their arms. The Boston Selectmen voted to accept the offer, and within days, 2,674 guns were deposited, one gun for every two adult male Bostonians.”

Of those who were involved in offenses in Boston to the crown (The Minutemen) but not the entire population of Boston.

Interesting read.


93 posted on 12/09/2023 5:41:01 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Clutch Martin

Props to David Kopel. It was he and the late Mike Vanderboegh who uncovered the Gunwalker scandal. You doubtless found his home page at https://davekopel.org

Those just starting out researching should also be reading Dr. John Lott’s site http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/

And Stephen Halbrook, although his site is pretty dense.

The most thorough dead tree treatment of the events of 1775 is, IMHO:

“The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War” by J.L.Bell

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594162492/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

His site is https://boston1775.blogspot.com/


94 posted on 12/10/2023 4:44:41 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Thanks for the links.


95 posted on 12/11/2023 4:30:48 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Thanks for the links.


96 posted on 12/11/2023 4:30:59 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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