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From: "Ron L'Herault" <lherault@bu.edu>
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 18:42:43 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"
I'm pretty sure it is Worcester, named after the town (City?) in England as
was Attleborough (now North Attleborough) where I live.  getting further
afield, I understand that names with "cester" in them have their origins in
the names of Roman military camps, "caster" in Latin, I think.

Ron


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