--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson"
<liberty@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@>
> wrote:
>
> > Why are "Chicago" and "Michigan" pronounced with [S] rather than
> > [tS]? Never understood those ones.
>
> Nor have I.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chicago
"The name 'Chicago' is the French version of the Miami-Illinois word
shikaakwa ('wild leek'/'skunk'), named for the plants common along
the Chicago River."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan
"[The State of Michigan] was named after Lake Michigan, whose name
is a French adaptation of the Ojibwe term mishigami, meaning 'large
water' or 'large lake'."
Cheers,
Francesco