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In the beginning, there was The Word... In my youth, I dreamed of being a professional translator. As such, some of my college classes included Intro to Linguistics , four quarters of French and two of Classical Greek (aka Bible study in a foreign language, what with these classes having been taken in the Deep South). So I have a longstanding love of and interest in languages generally, one I have pursued to some degree in earnest. Thus, it should be no surprise that I have some awareness of the Native influence on local place names across the US. It's a topic I have wanted to include in this blog from the start but I remain unclear how to proceed. I am reluctant to have this blog be filled to the gills with relatively short, light posts with blurbs like this edited bit of trivia taken from today's Bing homepage quiz: Pohono is the original name of Bridalveil Fall at California's Yosemite National Park. It is an Ahwahneechee name and means 'Spirit of the Puffing ...