Posted Jun 15, 2017, 11:00 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Cala Ghearraidh
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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer
"Mount" need not refer to a mountain - although my Latin lessons are more decades behind me than I care to discuss, istm that the word comes from the Latin "mons", which could refer to a mountain, a hill, or a mound.
Or have I indeed forgotten everything they tried to teach me?
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Both Mount Royal and Mount Pleasant are built on hills that either define the community or surround it. So that would make sense. I mean, the only border of mount pleasant that doesn't have a hill up to it is the southern border.
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