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Re: Chicago

Intersting to note that the word"skunk" is a cognate word (common 
linguistic ancestry) borrowed into English from another Algonquin 
dialect. 
James C. Trager
Shaw Nature Reserve

On 30 Apr 01, at 8:53, kschott@sedgwick.gov wrote:

> 
> I don't know if this helps or confuses anyone.
> Chicago is an Algonquian word for great stink. It has been an old Sauk
> story that, chicago was named after all of the stink of the skunk
> cabbage that blooms in the spring, in the area ( I have never seen any
> in the area.) There is more to the story but that is the jest. kelly  
> 
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