From: tgpedersen
Message: 59218
Date: 2008-06-12
>You could also say 'google' to her:
>
> --- "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.
>