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  2. List of shibboleths - Wikipedia

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    Punta Gorda, Florida: Locals will pronounce it / ˈ p ʌ n t ə ˈ ɡ ɔːr d ə / PUN-tə GOR-də whereas others tend to pronounce the first component as / ˌ p ʊ n t ə / PUUN-tə, more in line with its Spanish origin. Quincy, Massachusetts: The city's name is commonly pronounced by non-locals as / ˈ k w ɪ n s i / KWIN-see.

  3. Houghs Neck - Wikipedia

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    Houghs Neck / ˈ h aʊ z / is a one-square-mile (2.6 km 2) peninsula in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is surrounded by Quincy Bay , Hingham Bay and Rock Island Cove. It is lined by Perry Beach, which runs along Manet Avenue; Nut Island , which is just beyond Great Hill at the very end of the peninsula; and Edgewater Drive.

  4. Quincy, Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    Quincy, Massachusetts, is the only one of 17 cities named Quincy in the United States whose residents pronounce the name as "KWIN-zee" rather than "KWIN-see". In 1845 the Old Colony Railroad opened; the Massachusetts Historical Commission stated that the railroad was "the beginning of a trend toward suburbanization ".

  5. Quincy Jones, One of Music's Most Important Producers, Has ...

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    Born on March 14, 1933 in the South Side of Chicago, Jones went on to be known as a musical mastermind; he had a creative hand in producing some of the most memorable albums in music history.

  6. Quincy, WA Weather - Hourly Forecasts and Local Weather ... - AOL

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    Get the Quincy, WA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.

  7. Two, six, heave - Wikipedia

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    The year 1968 marked the first use of the exact phrase "two, six - heave" as a nautical or naval term. [5] Remarkably, the subject of the 1968 article was a number of theories about the origin of "two, six, heave". It also contains the first appearance of the popular unconfirmed theory that the phrase originated from Royal Navy gunners numbered ...

  8. A 16-year-old was just fractions of a second shy of becoming ...

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    EUGENE, Ore. — Quincy Wilson, a 16-year-old from Bullis School outside Washington D.C., finished sixth with a time of 44.94 in Monday’s 400-meter final at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials.

  9. Quincy, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Quincy (/ ˈ k w ɪ n s i / KWIN-see) is a city in and the county seat of Adams County, Illinois, United States, located on the Mississippi River. [4] The population was 39,463 as of the 2020 census, down from 40,633 in 2010.