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Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

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Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

  1. Only used in Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
    • 1952, Robert V. G. Wail, “Certain Indian Captives of New England”, in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, volume 68 (Third Series): October 1944 – May 1947, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, →JSTOR, pages 114–115:
      The captives brought back and passed on to a later day much that was beautiful and romantic: the poetic legends of the Indians, now a part of our literature, the picturesque native names of the hills and lakes and forest streams, names like Quinsigamond, Wachusett, Housatonick, Monadnock, and Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

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long English-language placenames