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DeskFan203 t1_j9jn5o5 wrote

Reply to comment by pickledeggs2020 in That billboard by ILovePublicLibraries

Yeah definitely a SMARTER move hahahahahaha

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AConnecticutMan t1_j9k18v8 wrote

That's why we call it Smartford

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[deleted] t1_j9mueb7 wrote

Hartford, Stamford, wish we had more fords.

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Stratford, Walingford.

Idk which other ones

Daburyford. Bridgeford, new haveford, Waterford.

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AConnecticutMan t1_j9n9d1v wrote

Can't forget the classics, Milford and New Milford, and I think there's a Waterford? Basically start with a cardinal direction or "New" and then choose either bridge or water and end in a -ford, -town or -ton and you have a CT town name

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french-russian-idiot t1_j9omvik wrote

"17 town names end in the suffix “ford.” They are Ashford, Branford, Eastford, East Hartford, Guilford, Hartford, Milford, New Hartford, New Milford, North Branford, Oxford, Stafford, Stamford, Stratford, Wallingford, Waterford, and West Hartford" (Ted Jackson for Manchester History)

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