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Originally Posted by JubJub Joe
The name "Chicago" is the French phonetic of the name shikaakwa, meaning 'wild leek'.
I'm not doing this for every place in the US... I think my point has been proven enough. Some people are too stubborn to realise they're wrong.
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So let's see if I follow your reasoning.
Chicago is named after a place in England, because it is an American pronunciation of a French pronunciation of an American Indian place name?
But let's take a map of Iowa to really measure your assertion since Iowa is a Heartland state full of good, honest American values.
Major population centers are;
Des Moines
Ceder Rapids
Davenport
Dubuque
Sioux City
Freehold
Waterloo
Now were is England is there a City/ town/ village/ hamlets with the same names?
Heck, why don't you point them out on this handy map of Iowa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:N...atlas-iowa.png