Posted on 09/08/2005 10:41:41 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
Didn't the eye pass directly over a little town called Ruxtun...or something like that?
Or is it the fault of people who diverted the Mississippi? At any rate, Before we help Deputy Sheriff Arceneaux we need to know whose fault it is.
towns built on a delta mud flat - That is to be expected that they would be erased.
I assume that those that lived here were mostly fishermen who usually know enough about the sea to get far away from an approaching storm. Unlike others.
This is the second time that have read a newspaper story with the word "village" in the title. Since when do we have villages? These journalists are either nitwits or they figure if they begin calling towns villages it will be the multicultural name for what were once called towns. Is anyone noticing this.
Really? I grew up in the Village of Malverne (NY).
Nothing wrong with the word "village." It means, in population and development terms, something smaller than a town and with fewer services. We also have "hamlets" in the US.
Generally, people may refer to them all as towns in everyday speech, but there is a difference between them.
"This is the second time that have read a newspaper story with the word "village" in the title. Since when do we have villages?"
Its definitely a regional term.
As N.O. calls counties parishes though there is no longer a religious connotation.
In some places every town is a "city".
Yep, like the new term ...
The "village" of New Orleans ;)
There were no incorporated towns in Plaquemines Parish. Some of those places could have been accurately described as fishing villages.
Click the link below for a google search of "Village of"
You'll find lots of small towns that classify themselves as villages...
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-32,GGLD:en&q=%22Village+of%22
I agree. I'm waiting for mention of what happened to the "indigenous peoples" and "village elders" after the great floods came. Did the "village healer" survive?
Weird.
We'll now I feel stupid. I just always thought villages were in third world countries and not here in the U.S.
LOL!
"We'll now I feel stupid. I just always thought villages were in third world countries and not here in the U.S."
Oh, well....live and learn, I guess...
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