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unusual facts about long i



Busti, New York

The town is named after Paul Busti, an official of the Holland Land Company, but its pronunciation uses a long i sound at the end, a frequent alteration in the names of several upstate New York towns.


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Paul Tishman

Allan Sherman parodied Tishman on his last Warner Brothers release (Togetherness, 1967) in the song "If I Were A Tishman" (All day long I'd buildy-buildy build, if I were a building man...) to the tune of "If I Were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof.