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Mispronouncing a street or town name is a quick way to tell a local from an outsider. Here are the trickiest place names in America for you to tackle.
paczki (in Polish settlement areas, esp. Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin) – a jelly doughnut; pop (North-Central and West) – a soft drink, carbonated soda; soda (all the Northeast and parts of Wisconsin) – soft drink; Troll (North-Central) – people who reside in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan
Alum Creek Lake is a man-made reservoir located in Delaware County, Ohio, United States. It was built in 1974, covers 5 square miles (13 km 2 ), and has a maximum capacity of 134,815 acre-feet (166,292,000 m 3 ).
Lake County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio.As of the 2020 census, the population was 232,603. [2] Its county seat is Painesville, and its largest city is Mentor.. The county was established on March 6, 1840, from land given by Cuyahoga and Geauga counties.
Given Michigan's deep history and various cities, villages and streets big and small, there are names and pronunciations that, to this day, still trip many people up.
The lake now holds 64.3 billion US gallons (243,000,000 m 3) of water, covering 17,088 acres (69.15 km 2) over a length of 17 miles (27 km) with a width of 1.6 miles (2.6 km) at the widest and 70 miles (110 km) of shoreline, with a maximum depth of 35 feet (11 m). The lake has served to provide a water supply for the Shenango and Beaver valleys ...
Conneaut is situated along Lake Erie at the mouth of Conneaut Creek. Conneaut is located in the northeasternmost corner of Ohio, bordering the state of Pennsylvania to the east and has 27 square miles (70 km 2) within its corporate city limits, making it the 15th-largest city in Ohio by total land area.
It is Ohio's second-smallest county by area. The county is crossed by the Auglaize River and the Miami and Erie Canal. The headwaters of the Saint Marys River, the Great Miami River and the Scioto River as well as parts of Grand Lake St. Marys and Lake Loramie are in the county. [11]