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Shu and I were at a great new brew pub in Chicago last night (there are increasing numbers of breweries in the Chicago area now)... Revolution Brewing, and on the menu was a Burning River "guest" beer, which they said was from "Cleaveland." Of course the waitress and I thought it was a misspelling, but Shu, who knows everything (  ), told us the story. It used to be spelled Cleaveland. Apparently there are two possible explanations as to why it no longer is:
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Well, Shu thinks it's the first theory. | |||
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Well, I would hope Shu is correct. Surely a surveyor wouldn't misspell a word on his plat. However; a person might want to go into the County or City records and look up the original map. That might be interesting.(Hopefully, I didn't misspell anyting above) | |||
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I think Proofreader is right about that. F'rinstance, my mother's family was named Latham. In official records back into the late 1700s it'sspelled "Letham," "Lethem," "Leatham," and "Latham." It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti | |||
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Wikipedia seems to indicate that the surveyors spelled the name correctly on the original map, although they put "Cleaveland" in quotes. Wikipedia doesn't address the discrepancy in the name. I've no idea if either, or another, theory is right, but lean towards Proof's variable spelling suggestion. The one about the newspaper has the ring of an urban legend to me. There's no mention of a Cleveland Advertiser in Wikipedia, although it's quite likely it stopped publishing many years ago so isn't listed. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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Of course, I expect many people assumed it was named after Cleveland in England. There is, after all, no shortage of cities and towns in the USA named after places in Britain. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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