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| Thread ID: 128634 | 2013-01-04 23:08:00 | a dibble thread for you | Frank_sumbody (16923) | PC World Chat |
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| 1321343 | 2013-01-04 23:08:00 | a dribble thread for you Newmarket is just five minutes walk from Auckland city center it has two roads (well more than that in fact). Mortimer Pass Could this be a public relation job on mortuary? Then on the other side of Broadway is Balm street could it be another PR job on embalming, so I put give me the "history on Newmarket" into google, so there you have it, I was wrong. Did you know when they went to name Dunedin, they were not sure if to call it Dundee or Edinburgh so the split the difference. That completes the dribble from me this mourning. |
Frank_sumbody (16923) | ||
| 1321344 | 2013-01-04 23:13:00 | Five minutes? The train is scheduled for eight and Google Maps says 45 minute walk... goo.gl | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1321345 | 2013-01-04 23:18:00 | Sorry I get confused at lunch time, thats five minutes walk if you go by train, I meant to say 30 minutes if you walk the speed of the army. |
Frank_sumbody (16923) | ||
| 1321346 | 2013-01-04 23:36:00 | The name comes from Dùn Èideann, the Scots Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1321347 | 2013-01-05 01:30:00 | What KarameaDave said. The name of Dunedin has nothing to do with Dundee as far as I am aware. | John H (8) | ||
| 1321348 | 2013-01-05 07:52:00 | We should change it to Karamea South | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1321349 | 2013-01-05 08:08:00 | How odd, putting "dundee Dunedin Edinburgh" gets strange results, I wonder who is right, I was told my version some years ago. It is a bit like how the thermionic value got invented, which turned crystal set radio into real radios, before the transistor came along. |
Frank_sumbody (16923) | ||
| 1321350 | 2013-01-05 08:53:00 | Didn't get strange results here, Frank. | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1321351 | 2013-01-05 09:23:00 | How odd, putting "dundee Dunedin Edinburgh" gets strange results, I wonder who is right, I was told my version some years ago. (snip) Have a look at: nzetc.victoria.ac.nz Here is the text of that entry: "Naming of Dunedin. "Dunedin has been Dunedin ever since the first settlers arrived there from Scotland, but the name of the town when it was only a plan on paper was New Edinburgh. This was chosen after such names as New Reekie, Edina, Ossian, Bruce, Burns, Duncan-town, Napiertown, Holyroodtown, and Wallacetown had been rejected. (snip irrelevant image) "In 1843 William Chambers, one of the editors of the well-known “Chambers Journal,” wrote to the “New Zealand Journal” (a paper published in London for the purpose of promoting interest in emigration to New Zealand) and suggested that the old Celtic name, Dunedin, was infinitely superior to New Edinburgh. This happy suggestion was adopted, but it was not until 1846 that the projected settlement became known officially as Dunedin. The same idea was used when the river Clutha was named. Clutha is the ancient name of the Clyde." |
John H (8) | ||
| 1321352 | 2013-01-05 10:31:00 | I thought (officer) dibble from good old "Top Cat" | bevy121 (117) | ||
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