>
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:11:00 -0500 (EST)
> From: Donald Burrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: NY Times on "statisticians' view" of election
>
> On 18 Nov 2000, Herman Rubin wrote, inter alia:
>
> > Dixville Notch, Vermont votes at midnight, and is widely
> > reported. But I doubt that this is what you mean.
>
> Dixville Notch is in New Hampshire. :-)
>
> (In fact, I'm not at all sure that any place except New Hampshire uses
> "notch" for a pass through the mountains. I don't recall having seen
> notches on maps of Vermont. Dixville Notch is the name both of such a
> pass (the northernmost in the state) and of a town in the notch.)
> -- DFB.
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> Donald F. Burrill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I grew up in western MA, and the principle word user in my family came from near
Boston, with
experience living in southern Vt. 'Notch' was used as you describe.
Also, the name of the road/pass south from Amherst, MA over the Holyoke range toward
Mt.
Holyoke College is called 'the Notch.'
the name, Dixville Notch, makes perfect explanatory sense to me :)
Jay
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