And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
"Some locals who live in 'the Sierra' are not hesitant to admonish those who refer to the area as 'the Sierras'. However, there are historical and literary references that use the plural, such as the 1871 collection of Joaquin Miller poems, Songs of the Sierras."
I have lived in 'the Sierra' my entire adult life (50+ years) and have never admonished anyone for using 'the Sierras', as you just did.
You need to relax, enjoy the photographs and appreciate the efforts that CW puts into bringing them to us.
The family has lived, worked, died in this region for multiple generations. No one we've known in all that time cared a whit whether the mountains were called the Sierra, the Sierras, the Hill, the woods, or whatever. Whatever descriptive word you'd like to use is cool, as long as everyone understands. Pedantry, on the other hand, is not a good look, and serves only to annoy.
CW- Funny that you mention 'the hill'. Living near Highways 20 and 49 (Yuba and Beckwourth passes) and Interstate 80 like I do I refer to going to Reno as 'going over the hill. I never realized until now that I do it sub-consciencely, without thinking someone might not understand what I mean. Now when I say or think of 'going over the hill' I'll probably chuckle to myself afterward.
It's "Sierra" NOT "Sierras." Sierra is already plural. Get it right!
ReplyDelete"Some locals who live in 'the Sierra' are not hesitant to admonish those who refer to the area as 'the Sierras'. However, there are historical and literary references that use the plural, such as the 1871 collection of Joaquin Miller poems, Songs of the Sierras."
DeleteI have lived in 'the Sierra' my entire adult life (50+ years) and have never admonished anyone for using 'the Sierras', as you just did.
You need to relax, enjoy the photographs and appreciate the efforts that CW puts into bringing them to us.
The family has lived, worked, died in this region for multiple generations. No one we've known in all that time cared a whit whether the mountains were called the Sierra, the Sierras, the Hill, the woods, or whatever. Whatever descriptive word you'd like to use is cool, as long as everyone understands. Pedantry, on the other hand, is not a good look, and serves only to annoy.
DeleteOK gentlemen, point taken. It just grates on me. But I'll shut up and just mutter to myself.
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DeleteFunny that you mention 'the hill'. Living near Highways 20 and 49 (Yuba and Beckwourth passes) and Interstate 80 like I do I refer to going to Reno as 'going over the hill. I never realized until now that I do it sub-consciencely, without thinking someone might not understand what I mean. Now when I say or think of 'going over the hill' I'll probably chuckle to myself afterward.
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