Lake

Yes, friends, it's not a typo in the title of the post. Famous for its lake called Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg) located in the vicinity of the town of Webster, Massachusetts.




This is one of the longest place names in the world, which is normally not able to utter even the local old-timers. Therefore, residents of Webster long abandoned the utterance "sacramental" name and simply put - Lake Webster.



There are many legends about the origin of this unusual name, the Americans left behind a legacy of Indian ..



One of the most common myths says that the word translated as Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg ancient wisdom: "You catch a fish on its shore, I fish on the opposite bank, and no one catches a fish in the middle (the lake)»





Source: dic.academic.ru