Spelling Of Lake's Name Was All Wet (NPR)

From NPR News:

All Things Considered
April 20, 2009

There's a three-mile long lake in central Massachusetts that has a Native American name that stretches for 45 letters.

Nowadays most people call it Webster Lake. But the cumbersome pronunciation of its traditional name was the subject of "The Lake Song," a 1954 novelty item by Ethel Merman and Ray Bolger.

Sadly, in 2003, two local signs erected in Webster, Mass., got the spelling of the name wrong. That's being corrected.

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