Re: CHAT: Place names (was: Pascua)
From: | Brad Coon <bcoon@...> |
Date: | Thursday, May 4, 2000, 23:04 |
Matt Pearson wrote:
>
> >Among my favorites (non-naughty): Stoney Lonesome, Bean Blossom, and Gnaw
> >Bone -- all in the beautiful hill country of southern Indiana, to the east
> >of Bloomington.
>
> My winner for best (semi-naughty) placename of Native American
> origin is the town of Humptulips, on the coast of Washington State.
>
And somewhere in California's Sierra Nevada mountains is a Bumpass Pass.
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Brad Coon
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