Do you know the true meaning of the name of where you live?

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Looked up the etymology of Oregon.

The serious attempt to derive it from an Algonguian (especially Ojibway or Cree) word referring to a plate or bark dish meets difficulties in view of the fact that such a name is improbable, hot being in accord with known Indian habits of naming. The name of the Wisconsin River was usually spelled Ouisconsink by the French, but the engraver made it Ouariconsint. This name was associated in later documents with an alleged great river flowing to the Pacific, and was then spelled Ouiragon, Ourgan, and Ourigan. It finally appeared as Oregon in the work of Jonathan Carver (1778). After the discover of the Columbia River, this was generally supposed to be the Oregon, and the name was then applied to the country in its vicinity and later to the territory.

http://tafkac.org/language/etymology/oregon_origin.html

More theories of the Oregon etymology.

Wikipedia says that the Pidgin tribe and people in Conneticut called it "Wauregan", meaning "Beautiful." The Chinook tribe called it "Ulakan", after a small species of
smelt fish and had significance to a gi-normous amount of oil.

Washington State: After George Washington.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U. ... tymologies

I now live in Plymouth, UK - Mouth of the river Plym

I used to live in Wales as a child, not too far from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which I can say (when sober) - It means The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave.

Erdington:

Though referred to as Hardintone in the Domesday Book, it is widely accepted that the name comes from a reference to a fortified homestead established by Eardwulf in Anglo Saxon times, with 'ton' or 'tun' being an Anglo-Saxon suffix for a settlement of that period. This homestead developed into a large house in the area of Bromford and became Erdington Hall.

i wish it was still spelt hard in tone...ROCK N ROLL!! !

lol x

I heard on a boat ride at Navy Pier once, that the Indians named Chicago after the onions that grew there, so that Chicago actually means "stinky onion" in Indian.

I live in a town called Peterlee. There's no mystery to the name, it was named after a man called Peter Lee... I guess you could imaginatively call it "Rock Meadow", which sums up the "architecture" quite well.

My home city? The name is an
obvious slurring of "Edmund's town"
(likewise for Edmundston, New Brunswick)

In post-Shakespeare Jacobean drama,
there is a play called The Witch of Edmonton;
the place in that title is the original town of
Edmonton, in England.(The town has long since been
swallowed whole by Metropolitan London.)