Re: Scientist's etymology vs. scientific etymology

--- "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> > > >
> > Perhaps related to this tree is a hilarious
> sounding
> > last name: Quackenbush, which I'd guess is an
> > Americanization of some Dutch or German name based
> on
> > that tree
> >
> Quackenbush
> Americanized spelling of Dutch Quackenbosch, a
> topographic name from
> Dutch quaak `swamp' (cognate with the English word
> quagmire) + bosch
> `woodland', `wilderness'.
> Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford
> University Press, ISBN
> 0-19-508137-4
>

Thanks, when I get back to the US, I can tell my next
door neighbor's mom.