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Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️ (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jul-2025 00:10:35 JST Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️

The end of yesterday's hike: Coquille (pronounced "Coke-well" ) Lighthouse.
Also, I'm starting to really enjoy ending my beach hikes at a jetty. Perhaps because it feels like a natural stopping point. DEFINITELY because of the massive accumulation of driftwood.
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  Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️ (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jul-2025 01:48:00 JST Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️
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  @freaktechnik Interesting! Coquille is also derived from French (a term referring to a scallops food dish)… but the Indian tribe is pronounced “ko-kwell” while the river and town of the same name is pronounced “ko-keel.”
  And this is according to the tribe.
  Oregon has about 150 locations that are very difficult to pronounce correctly 😆
  
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  Martin Giger (freaktechnik@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jul-2025 01:48:02 JST Martin Giger
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  @killyourfm that pronounciation is reminding me of one of my favorite english place names, Beaulieu (which is French for nice place), and yet, as wikipedia puts it, the name is pronounced as "bew-lee" in the local tongue... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaulieu,_Hampshire
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    Beaulieu, Hampshire
    
    Beaulieu ( BEW-lee) is a village located on the southeastern edge of the New Forest in Hampshire, England. It is home to both Palace House and the National Motor Museum. In 2020, it was named the fifth most beautiful village in the UK and Ireland by Condé Nast Traveler. History The name "Beaulieu" comes from the French beau lieu, which means "beautiful place". It is derived from Beaulieu Abbey, which was populated by 30 monks sent from the French abbey of Cîteaux, the mother house of the Cistercian order. The medieval Latin name of the monastery was Bellus Locus Regis ("the beautiful place of the king") or monasterium Belli loci Regis. During the Second World War, the Beaulieu Estate of Lord Montagu in the New Forest was the site of group B schools for agents operated by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) between 1941 and 1945. One of the trainers was Kim Philby, who was later found to be spying for the Soviets. In 2005, a special exhibition was installed at the Beaulieu Estate...

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