Dan,
This too makes sense. Do you speak with authority or is this a theory?
Thanks for the input.
Chris
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> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Christopher Graves<chrphrgrv_at_...> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know some detail about the New Hills which are just NW of
> > Alda-Chur along the rim of Snakepipe Hollow??? Why are they called the
> > New Hills?
>
> The simple, not terribly exciting, linguistic explanation:
>
> It was named by people who migrated there. They used to live in some
> other hilly terrain, moved to the new hilly terrain. They migration
> population referred to the new location as "the new hills" and the
> name stuck, even after the migration population eventually died off.
>
> Rather like people commonly refer to a replacement thing as the "new"
> thing and the original as the "old" thing. That newness does not
> necessarily mean new in the sense of "just made"; it may also mean new
> in the sense of "it just came into my possession."
>
>
> The place they used to live became known (to them, anyway) as "the old
> hills". Since they no longer lived in the old hills, that particular
> name never stuck to wherever they came from, except among the
> migration population. The people who moved in afterward gave it their
> own name, which is what most people call it now...
>
>
> Dan
>