OT: False River and Toad Suck, Etc.
- To: i*@onelist.com
- Subject: OT: False River and Toad Suck, Etc.
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 18:54:25 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Walter A. Moores" <wam2@Ra.MsState.Edu>
> For instance, would you mind explaining about TICKFAW? I mean the name.
> What does it mean? Also, why call an iris FALSE RIVER?
>
> celia
> s*@aristotle.net
> Little Rock, Arkansas, USDA Zone 7b
> -----------------------------------
False River is the actual name of a river in LA. It is/was an
oxbow lake, I think, wherein the Mississippi River changed its course and
left behind a serpentine body of water, a false river.
When I was driving on I-40 in AR, I saw a exit sign for Toad Suck.
Can you explain this place name, Celia? Perhaps in AR there is a similar
publication, but in MS we have two editions of ORIGIN OF PLACE NAMES IN
MISSISSIPPI.
Every state seems to have these strange names, Buck Snort, TN,
near Nashville; Cut and Shoot, TX, near Houston, etc. I love Muleshoe,
TX.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS
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