From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2015-06-26 19:08:53 +0000, Michelle Bottorff said:   
   > In the one I'm planning on setting in an alternate Ohio circa 1800, I   
   > was thinking that I would have my protagonist call new-world   
   > francophones Daybwahs*, because the only ones he has ever met were   
   > loggers come up the Mississippi/Ohio in search of big pines for masts.   
   >   
   > My hero's father came to Ohio via Canada--but in my alternate timeline,   
   > Canada was settled by the Germans, not the French, and Detroit is called   
   > something different.   
   >   
   > (My hero's father was actually Scandinavian, but I haven't figured out   
   > from which part of Scandinavia yet -- which is part of the reason my   
   > hero has not been named.  Maybe I'll go for him somethingly relatively   
   > generic like Daniel Erikson, and then never specify what his father's   
   > original nationality was.)   
      
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   happened to the Kalmar Union.   
      
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   being happy is to enjoy unbroken good fortune in every respect. They   
   would not all find the advice helpful.'"   
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