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Ellis Island is the one with that big green statue. What it has in common with Soundex?
by SergeAx 5y ago
Ellis Island is the one with that big green statue. What it has in common with Soundex?
- CRConrad 5y agoEllis Island in New York harbour (AFAIK) used to be the main immigration center for people arriving by ship from Europe, and is famous (among other things, I assume) for having originated some weirdly spelled names when the immigration officials who registered the newly arrived got it wrong. Don't know if the GP meant that they had soundex, or that they invented it, but in any case it seems they would have needed it.
- Tabular-Iceberg 5y agoI’m not saying that there aren’t big green statues on Ellis Island, but the really really big green one is on the next island over.
- mattowen_uk 5y ago> really really big green one It's not that big really, half of it is the plinth to be honest.