I'm not sure whether our wordplay-friendly Detroit-based physician only pretends to wonder about the "e"s, knowing their purpose very well, or not. One might excuse my lack of sense for slight allusions as English is not my mother tongue.
Glory-oskie!Really sounds like a nice little piece of literature.
But for those who really wonder about the "e"s in "Grosse Pointe" it might be helpful to know that the "Grosse Pointes" [sic!] were first settled by French farmers.¹
In French, grosse is the normal flexion of gros, meaning big, fat with less negative connotations than gross in English. Pointe, in this case, was used in its meaning of promontory, tongue of land. Now look at a large scale map of Detroit...
Regards
Prophecy
By the way: French détroit just means straits in English.
Prophecy
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