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 Mass (The).Massacre of the Innocents. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Massachusetts
 
was so named from the bay massa [great], wadehuash [mountain], et [near]. The bay-near-the-great-mountain.   1
 


 Mass (The).Massacre of the Innocents. 

 
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