snipped-for-privacy@aol.com had written:
>> Michigan has a "thumb" (between Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron), and
>> Virginia has a "toe" (roughly, the portion between Kentucky and
>> Tennessee -- or roughly the area included in NPA 276, to include at
>> least a nominal telecom reference).
>> And the portion of Pennsylvania that borders Lake Erie is sometimes
>> referred to as the "chimney corner".
>> There are undoubtedly other colorfully named territorial divisions.
> One them is the "boot heel" or "bootheel" of Missouri, a more common
> name for what somebody said was called Missouri's panhandle.
Actually, it's the only term for the Bootheel. Absolutely no one I know of in Missouri (a state that I lived in for almost 40 years) would call it the "panhandle". Ever.
What is odd is that a name never was given to the section of Missouri that was added by the Platte Purchase.
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