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How we're "doing it" in my neck of woods

Apr 25, 2020 7:00PM PDT
Pick ONE....JUST ONE

COVID-19 recovery plan for N.B. begins with 2-household 'bubbles'

Both households can ONLY have close contact with each other....neither household can have close contact with any another household

Took my car for a drive today...Had to get a boost....the battery was dead....It's been a while.

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(NT) The old Brunswick never had these problems.
Apr 25, 2020 7:52PM PDT
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Could have been worse
Apr 25, 2020 8:42PM PDT
Like most “New” names, New Brunswick was named after an old Brunswick—that is, the House of Brunswick, from which King George III was descended. The name comes from a German town called Braunschweig. In German, braun means “brown” while the English wick means “village.” Other names on the table for New Brunswick included New Ireland, rejected because Ireland was out of royal favour at the time, and Pittsylvania, named after the British Prime Minister William Pitt.

Pittsylvania?

Coulda' been "in the Pits"
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Lots of overlap of older German and English,
Apr 26, 2020 1:58AM PDT

even before the Georges. I learned not long ago that my surname is most likely a corruption of that same Braun.