A New Spelling for Clyde

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The town next to me is Clyde, a name that John and I had fun with. He said he wanted to find a house there so he could tell people we lived in Cliiiiide, said with a made-up mountain accent. I laughed every time.

Today a lost dog parked itself on a porch two streets away. The house owner checked with her neighbor, who in turn contacted Shawn on our street and included two photos. Shawn spread the word to us. D. must have dictated her reply, because she suggested someone call a humane society in COLLIDE. I love it! I’m dying to tell someone I’m going to (run into) Collide for lunch.

Less than an hour later word came that the dog belongs to the man who owns the fruit/vegetable stand near the creek. The man is very personable. He talked to John and me a long time one day. The two men talked about traffic on Long Island. He grew trees here and drove them to a nursery in Southampton. It pleases me to think Waynesville trees are growing in an extremely rich area of Long Island.

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Published by Anne Mehrling

I'm a retiree who loves to write about life in the mountains of North Carolina.

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  4. That’s funny – I remember you used to laugh about when you texted with dictation and how the words turn out. I see some clients or attorneys say “disregard spelling errors from Siri.” 🙂

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      1. No, I would not have been able to … (though I should as I’ve been scratching my head to translate Robb’s e-mails for years and he just plain texts). I like how auto-correct mangles up your wording to fill in the blanks. 🙂

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  5. That’s funny post. Clyde is historic words use in Bible & Q’uran. Mostly use place name. I’m glad the dog’s owner was found.
    Tack care my friend, Anne 😀

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  7. I thought you might be interested in this little snippet of information about the possible origin of the name of your nearby town, Anne. I wonder if it could have been a Scot or someone with connections to Scotland who named the town.

    My hometown in Scotland sits on the edge of the Firth of Clyde – ‘Firth’ being a narrow inlet of the sea. The River Clyde, which flows through the city of Glasgow, and into the Firth, is the second longest river in Scotland.

    The word ‘Clyde’ translates from the Gaelic word ‘Cluaidh’. It’s an ancient name. 😊

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    1. That is very interesting. Following is what I found on the Internet:

      When the railroad was under construction, the foreman’s name was Clyde. All the workers called his name so much the town was named Clyde.

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