We only think we live in Seattle. According to the Seattle PI, it's not SEE-AT-TULL at all. It's See-ahlsh (kinda sounds like yacht but more in the throat).
"In 1852, Chief Seattle, the leader of Duwamish and Suquamish tribes, reputedly persuaded David S. "Doc" Maynard to move his general store from Olympia, to which Seattle often canoed for supplies, to the village of Duwumps (now Seattle). Maynard named his store the Seattle Exchange and persuaded settlers to rename their town after the chief when they filed the first plats May 23, 1853."
The city is named after the chief and the right way to say the chief's name is not how we are all saying it so say it right people! I mean, what's a little guttural noise between neighbors in the name of historical accuracy?
2 comments:
Never going to happen.
I agree with Cherry. Too late.
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