What Were The Founding Fathers Thinking?

sandyRoe | 16:19 Wed 18th Jan 2023 | ChatterBank

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There's a place in Florida called Boca Ratón. In Spanish that means Mouse's Mouth.

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LadyCG

Rat's Mouth. I've heard of it before.

jno

a warning to mariners: sharp rocks.

bhg481

Well, there's a Mousehole in Cornwall; perhaps they thought it would be posher in Spanish.

sandyRoe

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Mousehole in Spanish would be Culo Ratón.

jno

the conquistadors were in Florida long before the founding fathers. St Augustine is the oldest city in the USA - founded in 1565. Jamestown's the oldest English one, 1604, and that's still 160 or so years before the fathers were founding anything.

Zacs-Master

Is not a Rat! Is Hhhamsta!

sandyRoe

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^. Ah, you're from Barcelona, then?

Zacs-Master

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If curmudgeonly Basil was about he'd have given you a clip around the ear for that.
We're in England, speak English. :-)

Zacs-Master

LOL. I know nooooothing.

Peter Pedant

BA to jno
I was gonna say - - "duh founding fathers spoke Thpanith did they?". My arriss as even they might have said

Peter Pedant

oh, los padres fondadores....

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