Just to clarify, this video intentionally didn't include Native-inspired *place names*, as those deserve their own series. Probably in 138 parts.
@dicesof8
5 жыл бұрын
A 50 part series! 1 for every state.
@Angie-Pants
5 жыл бұрын
Wisconsin alone would be 75 of those parts.
@kennashan
5 жыл бұрын
Virginia would take up a number of episodes, as well.
@kevinerose
5 жыл бұрын
There are tonnes in Ohio too.
@R0KURU
5 жыл бұрын
@@kevinerose Yes, definitely a lot here.
@Belboz99
5 жыл бұрын
Here's one you might not realize is Native: "Tuxedo". The tuxedo is named after Tuxedo Park, NY where it originated and became popular as a style of men's clothing. But Tuxedo, NY was named after the Algonquian (Munsee) word Tuxedo. In Algonquian the word is "tucsedo" or "p'tuxseepu", ran refers to "crooked river"
@bland9876
4 жыл бұрын
but British people are stereotyped as wearing the tuxedo hmm
@Barb5001
2 жыл бұрын
Brought up in Orange county NY. I was always very aware of that. Even that the town of "Tuxedo Park" is an upper class gated community
@Curmudgeon2
Жыл бұрын
Actually the Dinner Jacket was popularized by the Prince of Wales and brought to the USA by someone from Tuxedo Park where then become popular and thus on this side of the Pond it is called a Tuxedo...
@Appophust
8 ай бұрын
The tuxedo was invented in 1865 by Henry Poole & Company, a Savile Row Taylor in London, England. It was ordered by King Edward VII, who was the the Prince of Wales.
@Appophust
8 ай бұрын
@@Curmudgeon2or a dinner suit.
@jonadabtheunsightly
5 жыл бұрын
You can't fool me. I know skunks can't be exclusive to the Americas, because Pepe Le Pew is obviously from France, you can tell by his accent. QED. Also, one that catches a lot of people by surprise is "woodchuck". Everyone assumes it's related to the English word "wood", since after all they do often live in the woods. But in fact that's a coincidence: the word is of native American origin.
@SuperDrLisa
5 жыл бұрын
Right? Pepe Le Pew is obviously French!
@Bentcypress
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
@derekmills5394
5 жыл бұрын
@@SuperDrLisa Quebecois?
@bentleyr00d
5 жыл бұрын
Seán Jared No way, Pepe spoke proper French.
@medfordguy65
5 жыл бұрын
Bentcypress7 A woodchuck could chuck a cord of wood if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
@tedgovostis7351
5 жыл бұрын
As a Yank transplant to the UK, I was very confused when I came across someone insisting "Turtle" strictly refers to salt water animals, while "terrapin" is for freshwater ones. Turns out my confusion was due to the person being utterly incorrect, as "turtle" includes all the animals we think of with turtle, tortoise, and terrapin. Terrapin is another Algonquin word that somehow crossed the Atlantic and became the british english word for fresh water turtle, despite it not actually having any zoological validity.
@JEBavido
5 жыл бұрын
I learned turtles are the kind that swim (fresh or salt water), tortoises are land animals and terrapin is another word for tortoise. It's probably wrong, but that's what I was taught.
@tedgovostis7351
5 жыл бұрын
@@JEBavidoAre you s Brit?
@JEBavido
5 жыл бұрын
@@tedgovostis7351 ,no. I'm a Texan.
@tedgovostis7351
5 жыл бұрын
@@JEBavido Yeah for some reason, at least some Brits call freshwater turtles terrapins here. Some freshwater turtles do use terrapin as part of their common name, but there is no scientific basis for differentiating between the two.
@marshallsweatherhiking1820
21 күн бұрын
To my knowledge “tortoise” applies to turtles that primarily live on land and don’t have the webbed feet, like box turtles. “Terrapin” is used for small (usually) freshwater-dwelling turtles like painted turtles or red-eared sliders. Bigger swimming turtles are always just turtles though. Nobody ever calls snapping turtles terrapins. It’s okay to call any of them turtles though, because they’re all of the order Testudines.
@garynelson561
5 жыл бұрын
Raccoons are derided, because they're too goddamn smart. They, like squirrels, are masters of taking advantage of any food stuffs we humans leave unguarded for any reason. Wanna leave that fruit to ripen? Too bad! The raccoons are on it. Pretty much anything left where they can get it, is theirs. They've been around us so long, and have watched and learned all our tricks. Toronto recently put out a raccoon proof garbage bin only to have raccoons figure out how to break it in less than a month. I personally think raccoons are great, but we shouldn't coddle them or they'll lose their edge.
@JJoy-bk8yr
5 жыл бұрын
I kept cat food in in five gallon bucket with a screw top until I caught two raccoons standing up on either side of the bucket, turning the lid together with obviously coordinated movements.
@nancyomalley6441
5 жыл бұрын
@@JJoy-bk8yr Wow! That's actually adorable! I'll bet they can take an I.Q. test better than some humans!
@spelunk8
5 жыл бұрын
Us Torontonians have a mixed feelings relationship with trash pandas. We love them, and are annoyed by them at the same time
@raymonddavis1370
5 жыл бұрын
Because they play us so well there are now more skunks and racoons living in urban areas than there was when the same areas were wild.
@monember2722
4 жыл бұрын
They are derided because they can be vicious animals. Careful with your elderly and children. They are also rabies prone.
@amandag417
5 жыл бұрын
No skunk in England? Maybe we should send some of our skunks to the Brits as a gift...
@spacecatboy2962
5 жыл бұрын
operation skunk drop, flying over, dropping skunks onto britain with little parachutes on them.
@christelheadington1136
5 жыл бұрын
Talk about invasive species!
@FrankD71864
5 жыл бұрын
@@spacecatboy2962 Maybe Les Nessman can cover the drop for WKRP.
@marysmith6671
5 жыл бұрын
@MrSting17 burgoo is squirrel stew, would you like some recipes
@dimesonhiseyes9134
5 жыл бұрын
@MrSting17 I would love to come and help rid the British isle of the squirrels. I love squirrel meat. I might be the next st Patrick or his British equivalent I mean.
@rasapplepipe
5 жыл бұрын
Wampum, wapati and succotash are also Native American. Tomato, chocolate, coyote and avocado all come from Native Mexican Náhuatl.
@LostinthePond
5 жыл бұрын
Indeed! Good words for part 2!
@TheAtkey
5 жыл бұрын
Hurricane is a Mayan word. Toboggan is another Algonquin word.
@rasapplepipe
5 жыл бұрын
@@TheAtkey cacao is also Mayan. Tobacco comes from Taino.
@kevinerose
5 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the amazing Potato
@maxpowr90
5 жыл бұрын
Kayak is another great one.
@benvanderwoude4484
5 жыл бұрын
Colonists not only took the native words for some indigenous plants, they also adopted some agricultural practices. The growing in the same row and eating together of the 'three sisters' (corn, beans and squash) is common to this day. The planting together greatly increases the yield and quality of all three and consuming them together is synergistically more nutritious than eating them independently. This was a practice learned from the Iroquois and spread throughout the colonies and later the country.
@amandag417
5 жыл бұрын
And although colonists learned some agricultural techniques from Native Americans, Americans unfortunately didn't learn enough and that is why we had situations like the Dust Bowl....
@benvanderwoude4484
5 жыл бұрын
amandag417 The addition of mechanical assistance, lack of knowledge about the perc rate of soil and the underlying aquifer and unprecedented demand for American grain worldwide combined to cause the dust bowl. I guess if they had stuck to sustenance farming, foraging and hunting like the native Americans it wouldn't have happened but that wouldn't have satisfied demand. Anyway, this is what I get for creating a tangent....another tangent.
@FrankD71864
5 жыл бұрын
Three Sisters. Beans provide nitrogen in the soil for the corn. Squash is a natural pesticide. Corn stalk provides the pole for the bean.
@jmicone6895
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, and you plant them in the same hill or mound of soil, not in rows. Rows are for accommodating machines.
@benvanderwoude4484
5 жыл бұрын
@J Micone The Iroquois probably did but we plant em in rows.. We use tractors until the corn gets a little higher than a couple inches.
@howtubeable
5 жыл бұрын
SERIOUSLY! Lawrence, watch The Beverly Hillbillies. It's a treasure-trove of quaint American English!
@LostinthePond
5 жыл бұрын
Will do. Thanks!
@SuperDrLisa
5 жыл бұрын
Oh loved that TV show. In black and white. Again showing my age! 😉
@susanbrown5080
5 жыл бұрын
Wow, that brought back lovely memories. I also loved watching that show in black and white here in the U.K. and definitely long before I had Laurence.
@bobbyhood101
5 жыл бұрын
Actually hillbilly English is what 17th and 18th century English without much change it was contained within the appalachian mountains almost unchanged for a couple centuries it's was considered a language isolate!
@Author.Noelle.Alexandria
3 жыл бұрын
That show is great! I love how the butt-end of the jokes almost always ended up being the supposedly better-educated, supposedly sophisticated city-folk. That show so easily could have gone into cringe territory, but managed to avoid doing so.
@gssbcvegancat2345
5 жыл бұрын
Jaguar was a word that came from native south Americans that uk people are familiar with and based on my understanding of the language (I'm mvskoke so it isn't my native language) Americans pronounce it closer to it's original sound than Europeans. Also maze, hurricane etc. There are many words taken from our languages. It's sad because for a long time it was illegal for us to speak our own language, so much of it has been lost. Also please don't use the word squaw, that is not a good word and I was afraid you would say that.
@carlablair9898
Жыл бұрын
I have a friend who is a Catawba Indian. The Catawba language has been lost, which I think is sad.
@WGGplant
Жыл бұрын
@@carlablair9898 languages come and go, its unfortunate, but that's how it goes. "English wont be around forever either." though with the invention of the internet, that saying means less than it used to, as language is spread across the entire planet now all we can do is study and appreciate them. though there are many cases of ppl actively deciding to bring a language back from extinction, which i think is cool.
@jbach1738
Жыл бұрын
@@WGGplant yes! I love these programs that are trying to bring back endangered languages before they become extinct. I am personally studying Cherokee, as my grandmother was Cherokee and I want to learn more about the language and culture of my ancestors. There are a lot of resources now to study these languages completely free. Even Duolingo now has a course for Navajo.
@spacecatboy2962
5 жыл бұрын
i learned from alice cooper that Milwaukee is an Algonquian word that means the "good land"
@drivers99
5 жыл бұрын
Dances with Kitty Cats : that's exactly what I thought of when he said Algonquin :)
@spacecatboy2962
5 жыл бұрын
haha, thats funny. Its a small world aint it? Milwaukee has certainly had its share of visitors. @@drivers99
@corinnekinzinger5494
5 жыл бұрын
Topeka is good place to grow potatoes.
@Vodhin
5 жыл бұрын
"We're not worthy" of that knowledge!
@AuburnTigers111
5 жыл бұрын
I was not aware of that.
@jameswoodard4304
5 жыл бұрын
Hominy and the process of making it (nixtamization) is vitally important though little known. Many Native American societies depended on maize corn as their main staple crop. When whites took over, this also became the case among Americans, espescially in the South. Unbeknownst to Anglo-Americans at the time, however, maize corn does not provide the biologically necessary nutrient Niacin (vitamin B) unlike the other grains that Europeans were used to depending on. During the Great Depression, when the Southern diet depended to a huge extent on maize corn for everything from beverages to bread, the mysterious disease Palagra swept the region killing and disabling large numbers of children. It turns out the Native tribes had long ago learned of the necessity of treating a small amount of their corn with special solutions to provide a balanced diet and stave of illness. When corn is turned into hominy, it is able to release Niacin into the system. Once people were finally convinced that Palagra was simply a vitamin defficiency, many lives were saved, and hominy became a staple of Southern cooking.
@bentleyr00d
5 жыл бұрын
James Woodard The Massachusetts Pilgrims came to live on a diet of beans and cornbread, both of which they learned from the Wampanoag, and I guess the combination was probably much healthier than just corn alone.
@victorwaddell6530
5 жыл бұрын
I'm 1/8 Cherokee from the Carolinas . Thanks for speaking about the Native Americans and our languages . Here's a few words in English with native origins . Tomahawk , canoe , kayak , succotash , potato , tobacco , chocolate , avocado . Hominy is ground into finer bits making the southern dish called grits . Pumpkins are a type of squash , the hard skinned squashes are called winter squash , the soft skin types are called summer squash . Succotash today is a stew of vegetables , but long ago contained vegetables and wild game meats . The dish Brunswick Stew is derived from early succotash .
@SuperDrLisa
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that info, very interesting!
@Markle2k
5 жыл бұрын
Brits may be slightly more familiar with the mediterranean adaptation of grits called polenta.
@victorwaddell6530
5 жыл бұрын
@@Markle2k Same food with different names . Grits are a common staple in the South and cheap . Polenta is an exotic Italian dish with a high price tag . Go figure . I cooked up a pot of grits with cheese and eggs this morning , shared them with my grandpa . I should have boiled a pot , called them polenta , and made $30 in some fancy restaraunt .
@judyvalencia3257
5 жыл бұрын
Love, Love, Love grits! With butter! Yum.
@w8stral
5 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the word Potluck which is used everywhere in the USA and Canada. Pow wow, Totem, Muskeg, skookum(awesome/powerful) but this word is pretty much only used in WA/BC
@bob_._.
5 жыл бұрын
A couple political terms from Native American - caucus (Algonquin) and mugwump (Massachusett). And woodchuck (Narragansett) is another animal, maybe more widely known as the ground hog and less widely known as the whistle pig.
@JEBavido
5 жыл бұрын
Marvelous! In the Harry Potter books one of the positions attributed to the Dumbledore character is "supreme mugwump". :D
@bob_._.
5 жыл бұрын
LOL Makes me wonder if J.K. knows the actual meaning of the word.
@bentleyr00d
5 жыл бұрын
Chocolate is from the Aztecs, right?
@bob_._.
5 жыл бұрын
Nahuatl, which was spoken by the Aztecs, among others.
@PokieKnows
5 жыл бұрын
A mugwump is a bird that sits on a fence with his mug on one side and his wump on the other! (My mom taught me that as a child and it still makes me giggle!)
@annam.addison2129
5 жыл бұрын
Got a movie for you... you will hear 80% of the native words you just discussed in this video. "The Last of the Mochicans" with Danial Day Lewis... Brilliant Film.... amazing soundtrack. Be Good.
@LostinthePond
5 жыл бұрын
Bloody love that film! AND soundtrack!
@dimesonhiseyes9134
5 жыл бұрын
It's an even better book.
@richd5476
5 жыл бұрын
If you visit NY Glens falls/Lake George is def worth the visit for the F&I war history and Rev war as well.You can see the real Coopers cave that inspired the book.
@ronaldcammarata3422
5 жыл бұрын
@@dimesonhiseyes9134 I never thought Cooper was a very good writer. I liked the story, but his prose was very stodgy.
@dimesonhiseyes9134
5 жыл бұрын
@@ronaldcammarata3422 I'm not familiar with any of his other work. I do remember it being long and drawn out at times it seems. But I did like the story
@thefury110
5 жыл бұрын
I really like the language videos man. Always a lot of interesting bits in here
@LostinthePond
5 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear it!
@SuperDrLisa
5 жыл бұрын
Me too Lawrence!
@jbach1738
Жыл бұрын
Yes. I really like all the Lost in the Pond videos, but the language ones are far and away my favorite. Wado!
@colinedmunds2238
5 жыл бұрын
The Raccoon is also known as “Trash Panda”, originating as a joke online. They’re, to use a British word, cheeky. Mischievous and clever, you have to respect their hustle.
@larryphilby4918
5 жыл бұрын
The opossum is also a marsupial. You mean like kangaroos, koalas, and Tasmanian devils? Yep. There's also a possum in Australia. Similar, but not related. Just another marsupial to them. South America had a number of marsupials, bit after being connected to North America, the placental invaders made most of them go extinct. The opossums came north and were successful, since they can and will eat anything.
@jillshort9241
4 жыл бұрын
Except a captive possum I knew, called Frodo, who would only eat his broccoli if it was mixed in with fruity yogurt 😀 True story
@urmorph
3 жыл бұрын
In Australia the marsupial in question is always called possum, never opossum, which is preferred by American zoologists. Why the Ozzies chose that word is puzzling, but no more so than American use of buzzard, elk, robin, turkey, etc. ad nauseam.
@negf22
3 жыл бұрын
Opossums like and eat lots of insects, especially TICKS. They will however eat just about anything.
@carolgage4569
5 жыл бұрын
Old joke for Laurence: A couple was driving through a state that had many difficult to pronounce Native names for their towns. At one gas and restroom stop, they also visited a local drive thru before returning to the highway. As the teenaged blonde girl was handing them their order, the husband asked, “Miss, can you please, very slowly, pronounce for me the name of where we are right now?” The girl leaned forward and and clearly enunciated “Burr-Gerr-King!” 😀
@crosscastle100
3 жыл бұрын
Same with Texas town of Mexia. But it is Diary Queen
@KamisamanoOtaku
5 жыл бұрын
@7:40 Trash panda! (I know, I shouldn't be greedy and just be happy with the SMB3 shoutout!)
@marygebbie6611
5 жыл бұрын
Isn't moose another animal name from Native American languages? Same with wapiti, although in the US we don't really use that name. Some others that I can think of as more obvious words like moccasin, succotash, canoe, hammock, persimmon, and of course, pecan.
@archenema6792
5 жыл бұрын
Sylvester the Cat was the original advocate for Algonquin bilingualism.
@lokimartin9686
5 жыл бұрын
youve been to wv i find it hard to believe youve not encountered a possum lol
@julisteck9548
5 жыл бұрын
Pecan is a Native American word.
@rachelmiller9280
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, but it's not pronounced (pee-can) it's pe k:an.
@gloopsgloops
5 жыл бұрын
Here we go.
@ronaldcammarata3422
5 жыл бұрын
@@rachelmiller9280 Pronounced that way by some, but not all people. As you already knew.
@rachelmiller9280
5 жыл бұрын
@@ronaldcammarata3422 Well there's a proper way then there is your way and it's called Fucknuttery.
@bentleyr00d
5 жыл бұрын
It was originally called pacana, and the experts say the stress was always on the second syllable. So pe-CAHN seems to be closer to the original. I grew up hearing PEE-can.
@jennyknopps1291
5 жыл бұрын
I think you left out the word Moose.
@LostinthePond
5 жыл бұрын
Indeed. An entry for part 2 methinks!
@jennyknopps1291
5 жыл бұрын
@@LostinthePond maybe ;)
@russellcannon9194
5 жыл бұрын
Possums are quite common where I live in the deep south, and I have had occassion to handle them. They do play dead, but they will also bite and pee on you. When you see a possum "run", you will realize why they play dead. Their "run" is more like a scoot, and it is funny to watch. There is probably no possum predator that they can outrun. Cheers, Russ
@FrankD71864
5 жыл бұрын
Have that walks around the backyard every night.
@alexanderthegreatest1781
5 жыл бұрын
As long as they like gobbling up ticks, they're cool in my book. Screw, those little bloodsucking vectors.
@peacefulpossum2438
5 жыл бұрын
Possums have gotten a bad rap. Not only do they eat pests including ticks, they don't carry rabies. They'd much rather be left alone than get into it with anyone. In fact, they rarely bite.
@PokieKnows
5 жыл бұрын
They'd do much better if they began to use crosswalks, tho.
@teenystudioflicks1635
4 жыл бұрын
I live in Washington state (West coast) and Possums cut through the yard often. Occasionally if the dogs are out they just race across the top of the wooden back fence. It is about 6 feet high so they feel safe and just hiss at the dogs. My granny ate them and squirrels often as a child. About as revolting as those Texas guys who ate BBQ rats, gag! (of course in a pinch maybe... big pinch that is)
@JPMadden
3 жыл бұрын
In Rhode Island we have the Narragansett word "quahog" used to refer to a type of hard-shell clam. I don't know how widely the word is used, but fans of "Family Guy" will recognize it as the name of the fictional hometown of the Griffins.
@derekmills5394
5 жыл бұрын
How about that word we all seem to use when jumpin off something - like a diving board, aeroplane or whatever - GERONIMO!
@washingtonradio
5 жыл бұрын
Actually not a word but a name of an Apache chief.
@corinnekinzinger5494
5 жыл бұрын
and it derived from Spanish, it's the name Jerome.
@urmorph
3 жыл бұрын
@@corinnekinzinger5494 In turn derived from Greek and Latin Hieronymus, "named for the holy." Geronimo was used by American paratroopers, apparently to provide a brief pause before pulling the ripcord.
@ALRIHAE
5 жыл бұрын
You don't like pumpkin pie? Back across the pond with you!
@lesnyk255
5 жыл бұрын
lol, I was thinking the same - it's one of my favorites!
@cynthiax56
5 жыл бұрын
I'm a yank and I don't like pumkin pie and I hate apple pie too.
@GailGurman
3 жыл бұрын
Actually he misspoke here. In the pumpkin pie vs sweet potato pie, I think he preferred the pumpkin pie. Since pumpkin is a type of squash, when he said he tried it in a pie as an alternative to pumpkin pie, he was mixing up "squash" with "sweet potato."
@Marcel_Audubon
5 жыл бұрын
*Me, I want a hula hoop*
@dats3
5 жыл бұрын
My parents made me eat hominy when I was a kid and it always triggered my gag reflex. Thanks for bringing up traumatic memories. JK, great video, but seriously, hominy is disgusting.
@justinadams2010
5 жыл бұрын
My grandmother, who lived her whole life in Kentucky, usually referred to a skunk as a pole cat.
@archenema6792
5 жыл бұрын
I thought polecats wuz weezels.
@mamieanding5691
4 жыл бұрын
We named a B&W cat Polecat.
@johanrunfeldt7174
3 жыл бұрын
@@archenema6792 They are, but skunks are also members of the weasel family.
@jwb52z9
5 жыл бұрын
I never would have thought of eating raw squash and I had no idea that it didn't exist in Europe or the UK. I know I've heard British people use the word "gourd" before, so I just assumed squash was a thing in the UK.
@LostinthePond
5 жыл бұрын
We probably do have it in the UK, but the word squash usually refers to a drink.
@themoviedealers
5 жыл бұрын
@@LostinthePond Which in the United States would be probably called "concentrated fruit juice" or "fruit juice concentrate."
@michaelpytel3280
5 жыл бұрын
@@LostinthePond Maybe you should do a taste test: Lemon Squash versus Orange Squash versus whiskey.
@SuperDrLisa
5 жыл бұрын
We eat a salad with raw zucchini and yellow summer squash I just put it in the pasta salad with the other veggies tomatoes, carrots, spinach, whatever is on sale or good at the farmers market!
@SuperDrLisa
5 жыл бұрын
@@LostinthePond Lawrence, what's in that drink,?
@jeromemckenna7102
5 жыл бұрын
I lived in an area of Clifton, NJ, called 'Skunk Hollow' and we certainly had a lot of those mostly friendly creatures. Raccoons are very talented at getting stuff out of garbage cans. They love the suburbs and they used to knock over our garbage cans if we had chicken bones in the garbage.
@Belboz99
5 жыл бұрын
Racoons are the most bothersome while camping. They're very good at getting into coolers, picnic baskets, etc. Even latched coolers. One night I was falling asleep and heard a noise, went out with my flashlight just in time to see a giant trash panda dragging a 1L tupperware container of GORP into the woods. I really wanted that GORP. :(
@SunflowerSpotlight
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, we have a Skunk Hollow street in TN! And Pig Lane. Of course most people call the former Skunk Haller. 😅 If I had an animal band, raccoons would play bass I think.
@pyrovania
5 жыл бұрын
@@Belboz99 sure that wasn't a black bear? Bears in the Sierras are very skilled at getting at people food, even if you sling it up in a tree, they send the cubs out on the branch.
@gloriastroedecke2717
5 жыл бұрын
Jerome Mc Kenna What part of Clifton is that? I lived off of Lexington next to Mahar back in the 1980's.
@craigistheman101
5 жыл бұрын
Small world, I’m currently in Clifton now
@texasborn2720
5 жыл бұрын
Not to mention Nations (Like Canada) States, Cities , Towns, Rivers, Streams, Lakes, State Parks, National Parks. Have Native-American names !
@HemlockRidge
5 жыл бұрын
Hominy is shortened from "Hominy-Grits-with butter-and-salt-and- pepper-and-maybe-cheese".
@frangarner925
5 жыл бұрын
Or Shrimp
@morgainnetaar
5 жыл бұрын
Native American words, here in Alabama are common. From, Noccalula Falls, Tuscaloosa, Talladega, Wetumpka (and many more) which are all locations of course. My children have found authentic arrow heads made from stone just walking along some of the shorelines of creeks and rivers or hiking in Oak Mountain or Talladega National Forest.
@LostinthePond
5 жыл бұрын
Native American place names could take up their own 30-part video series. So many of them! Even "Chicago" has its roots in Algonquian!
@burymycampaignatwoundedkne3395
5 жыл бұрын
The South in general is like that. Tennessee is full of them too.
@rayperrault1538
5 жыл бұрын
I live in Oklahoma. Even the state is a Choctaw word. But alot of the towns names are Native as well
@lesnyk255
5 жыл бұрын
Nancy Kelly - same up here in New Hampshire. Ashuelot, Monadnock, Sunapee, Winnepesauke, Wantastiquet, Wapack, Nubanusit... down in Massachusetts you've got Cohasset, Rehoboth, Nantucket...
@amandafelt4059
5 жыл бұрын
Same in New York. There are a lot of Native American named waterways and places, but I believe the same can be said for most of the continental U.S.
@alisgray
5 жыл бұрын
Lawrence, have you ever been to a pow wow?
@Tujosax
5 жыл бұрын
You are confusing OPOSSUMS with Possums. OPOSSUMS are from North America, Possums are from Australia.
@Robocline
4 жыл бұрын
I love our native animals. They’re a bit of a nuisance but raccoons and skunks make good pets. Possums are considered to be good meat but in my personal experience I’ve had them accompany me in the woods multiple times throughout my life. I’ve never had any instance where they bothered me or were bothered by me. Armadillos are kind of rude little beasts like groundhogs but they aren’t nearly as bad as rattle snakes or water moccasins.
@juliantreidiii
2 жыл бұрын
O'possum. are all over Georgia. In the South some foods, Okra, and other words are African. You might do one on that. Oostanaula River; Oostanaula is a name derived from the Cherokee language meaning "shoally river". Coweta, Coosa, Chattooga, Etowah, Euharlee and Eufaula, and Suwanee are likely of Creek origin, their names taken over and converted to Cherokee. Hominy is corn soaked in lye. Dry it out and grind then up and then cook then to get grits. Lye is an old cleaning product and an old word too. It comes from the Old English léag, which is related to the root for "wash" in our word lather.
@InventorZahran
4 жыл бұрын
I thought "chipmunk" was a shortening of "chipping monkey", based on its sounds and behavior...
@knightaries13
5 жыл бұрын
Raccoon aka "Trash Panda" 😁 They're playful.
@quintenm4316
5 жыл бұрын
When is the Utah video coming out?
@LostinthePond
5 жыл бұрын
I'm shooting for by the end of January!
@ShadowACE1998
5 жыл бұрын
Be patient bro. He lives in Chi-Town. He has to realize there is a whole state called Illinois that isn't Chicago first. LOL
@TheNascarfan999
5 жыл бұрын
@@ShadowACE1998 Oh he knows that already because he is one of the 1% of Chicagoins to have ever actually been south of Joliet to discover the rest of Illinois when he drove to Kentucky for the eclipse.
@Mreffs101
5 жыл бұрын
Maybe a list of states or cities with Native American names?
@LostinthePond
5 жыл бұрын
Plenty of material to work with there!
@amandag417
5 жыл бұрын
@@LostinthePond For sure! And what about cities named after another city in another country? Why is that so? I'm especially interested in lesser-known towns. Like why is Cairo Illinois named such? Although it's a ghost town now, Cairo was the promised land in Mark Twain's book.
@Isabella66Gracen
5 жыл бұрын
There are so many of those, he'd have to go state by state, and it would be in (as he commented above) in 138 parts. At least. In the state of Utah alone there are hundreds (including the state name itself-- which is Ute for Mountain).
@diarradunlap9337
5 жыл бұрын
Far too many for one video. Massachusetts alone would give you a goodly number. Connecticut, also.
@Mreffs101
5 жыл бұрын
@@diarradunlap9337 A series then perhaps? He's done them before. 😁
@virgilfroehrig9665
5 жыл бұрын
If you have any fascination with native American contributions to modern society... Look up the book called Indian givers. Yes... It may not sound right... But once you read it then you will realize the irony. The follow-up book is also a great read. Have yourselves a great day.
@shawnn1412
5 жыл бұрын
Pronunciation of Grrman improves after a few whiskies
@LostinthePond
5 жыл бұрын
Ha!
@spiffyspits3605
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for mentioning 'hominy'!!! I love hominy with butter, a great comfort food.
@chicagodaddy1
4 жыл бұрын
Hence the Suburb of Chicago called Algonquin.
@juliesteimle3867
5 жыл бұрын
The word 'caucus' is also Native American. I do believe from the Iroquois, thus Algonquin. It came from their political organization, which was partially adopted by the Founders as part of our political speak as well as representative system along with the Senate (which was Roman based).
@Petunia-Greene
5 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Ohio in Geauga County. The original spelling was Sheauga and is I am told an Erie Indian word which means “raccoon”. Lake Erie I believe was named after the Erie tribes as well.
@christelheadington1136
5 жыл бұрын
I'm in Cuyahoga(crooked river)County,Ohio(beautiful river).
@Petunia-Greene
5 жыл бұрын
Christel Headington I totally forgot about that one!! Wonder what indigenous tribe that word belongs to?? And yes that river has s really crooked
@davids6898
5 жыл бұрын
Here in Southern California most of the Indian names were renamed by the Spanish settlers. For example the indigenous people had names for Santa Catalina Island, the San Joaquin Hills, and the Santa Ana River which I cannot even pronounce. Even the tribes themselves were renamed - the tribe where I live was originally the named the Tongva but the Spanish renamed it to the Gabrielino, after the San Gabriel Mission which they established in the 1770s and which itself takes its name from the nearby San Gabriel Mountains which had their own Tongva names which have since been hidden or lost and which probably won’t come back if for the fact that these names are so difficult to say or write.
@horseenthusiast1250
5 жыл бұрын
A lot of words borrowed from Native American languages into English come from the Algonquin language family, but I don’t really know any English non-place names that come from Yurok, an Algonquin language from northern coastal California. That’s probably because English speaking people met Yurok people waaay later than they met other Algonquin language family speaking folks. Anyway, here’s the Yurok versions of some of the words you’ve mentioned here: Skunk is Heyomues, Chipmunk is Smeychken, and Raccoon is Tweygoh.
@barbaramatthews4735
5 жыл бұрын
I've eaten summer squash and zucchini raw. Most of the time I prefer it cooked. One thing you missed about opossums is that they are the only marsupial animals native to the America's. "Opossum" is the common spelling with the letter "O" being silent/not pronounced.
@angelasaunders3558
5 жыл бұрын
Many of our states have Native origins such as my home state of Michigan... good idea for next Native American words - how many states are named after Native American words. 😊
@curtbarnes4294
5 жыл бұрын
Laurence, you and Alexis de Toqueville are my 2 fave non-native observers of this country. The advantage here is that we can ask you questions! thanks as usual--this is particularly fascinating.
@boperadotto8703
5 жыл бұрын
In the PNW we have potlatch and kayak, for example
@shellh929
5 жыл бұрын
What's potlatch?
@boperadotto8703
5 жыл бұрын
Shell H (pronounced pot-luck) It was/is a gift-giving feast, which you can read up on more accurately than I can portray. In the colloquial use, it refers to a feast where all invited parties bring part of the meal
@shellh929
5 жыл бұрын
Lost in the Pond probably hasn't heard that one because he's mostly lived in the Midwest where we call that a potluck. It's probably another iteration of potlatch. Thanks for the reply/info. :)
@boperadotto8703
5 жыл бұрын
chi wa We pronounce it potluck, but spelling probably changed on it’s way over to you
@shellh929
5 жыл бұрын
Language is so interesting!
@applejuice3562
5 жыл бұрын
Hurricane, barbecue, canoe, and hammock are native also. Arrowak in origin. They are from carribean islands and Florida
@jonrolfson1686
5 жыл бұрын
One might mention the curious case of Alces alces, the largest (by body size) of extant deer. Though known in northern EurAsia as 'Elk" (or variations thereof), early English migrants for some reason favored the Narraganset 'moos' or 'moosu' (bark-stripper), resulting in 'Moose.' The good olde english appellation 'Elk' was repurposed and given to North American representatives of the next largest of the deer species, Cervus canadensis. The Cree/Shawnee (Algonquian) name 'Wapiti' is gaining ground as a way to refer to Cervus canadensis, but 'Elk' still predominates.
@denystull355
5 жыл бұрын
What's bad about raccoon and skunks is they carry rabies. There are also a lot of Native American words from the SW tribes too.
@SunflowerSpotlight
5 жыл бұрын
Denys Tull Also, armadillos can carry leprosy. 😳 So crazypants.
@hopegoodwin2728
5 жыл бұрын
Also raccoons will rip the heads off live poultry
@bentleyr00d
5 жыл бұрын
Hope Goodwin But those chickens can be very condescending toward the raccoons.
@cjpietropinto9293
5 жыл бұрын
This info is misleading. All mammals are possible rabies carriers. Humans, bats, cats, dogs, cows, deer, goats, moose, fox, ground hog, chipmunk, mice, rats, ......do you really need me to go on? There's a reason your vet offers a rabies vaccine....
@alzoron
5 жыл бұрын
Raccoons are also known for being carriers of some nasty bacteria and parasites which are very harmful to people and pets. They can be especially problematic for people with gardens because not only will they eat your garden but also defecate in your garden and contaminate it with these bacteria and parasites.
@VictorLepanto
5 жыл бұрын
You know that a pumpkin IS a kind of squash?
@gailrohleder6748
5 жыл бұрын
I love baked squash
@badguy1481
5 жыл бұрын
Including...the names of Midwestern cities like "Milwaukee"...."Chicago". And how about some Wisconsin towns: Oconomowoc...Wawatosa...Sauk..Menominee.
@cjpietropinto9293
5 жыл бұрын
Chicago isn't in the Midwest. Midwest is historically defined at "west of the Mississippi river." Look it up for yourself.
@badguy1481
5 жыл бұрын
@@cjpietropinto9293 I did... "midwestern 1 adj of a region of the United States generally including Ohio; Indiana; Illinois; Iowa; Missouri; Kansas; Nebraska; and sometimes Michigan; Wisconsin; Minnesota"
@archenema6792
5 жыл бұрын
George Carlin's favorite, from New Jersey: Piscataway.
@archenema6792
5 жыл бұрын
@@cjpietropinto9293 I'm from Pittsburgh. It was once consider the far West, now it's considered the most western Eastern city.
@awesomelyshorticles
5 жыл бұрын
Omaha, Nebraska Sioux City in south Dakota
@condorboss3339
5 жыл бұрын
skookum - borrowed from the tribes in the Pacific Northwest. Means "big" or "great".
@luddity
5 жыл бұрын
from Chinook jargon. Also means strong/powerful.
@bobbyhood101
5 жыл бұрын
Maise,corn , potatoe ,tomato, okra foods galore
@victorwaddell6530
5 жыл бұрын
I think okra is of African origin . Tasty in gumbo , fried , or pickled .
@bentleyr00d
5 жыл бұрын
Bobby Hood The English still use the word maize to refer to corn.
@Ojisan642
5 жыл бұрын
“Canoe” is the native loanword American school teachers use as an example of such, at least when I was a kid. So probably the most well known of the native loanwords.
@angstandvexed
5 жыл бұрын
If you do the research, the early colonist drank quite a lot, the belief that the water wasn't safe to drink. It is an interesting piece of history, and why America has had some interesting history with alcohol. I hope you do a video on this topic.
@amandag417
5 жыл бұрын
I think it would be interesting to compare the drinking practices of America with England.
@LoremasterYnTaris
5 жыл бұрын
America - to my knowledge, the only nation founded in a local tavern.
@victorwaddell6530
5 жыл бұрын
@@LoremasterYnTaris And the idea for a new country was probably written on a beer coaster with a quill pen .
@SuperDrLisa
5 жыл бұрын
@@victorwaddell6530 lolol, not sure coasters were used much then!
@bentleyr00d
5 жыл бұрын
The practice came straight from Europe.
@dapeach06
5 жыл бұрын
Some other ones include picnic, and hurricane, and hammock, but those are from Carib/Taino, not Algonquin
@gloriastroedecke2717
5 жыл бұрын
Very enjoyable. Thanks, Laurence. When I was younger, more often the animal possum was pronounced Opossum. I never hear that pronounciation any more. I would love to see a follow up with John Smith's list. Glad we say Raccoon, because I like the song Rocky Raccoon and it just wouldn't be the same.
@LostinthePond
5 жыл бұрын
Rocky Raccoon - very underrated Beatles song!
@rebelpearl
5 жыл бұрын
Gloria Stroedecke Opossum is the correct official name. Possum is what we usually call them. I grew up not liking possums very much since I lived on a farm and our chickens were often targeted for meals by them. However I live in town now and welcome our neighborhood possum since it keeps the unwanted rodent population down.
@christelheadington1136
5 жыл бұрын
@@LostinthePond -The song that gets stuck in my head, every time I hear it.
@lindataylor6168
5 жыл бұрын
Listen closely to Rocky Raccoon. It’s Paul doing his best American accent, really funny!
@marshallsweatherhiking1820
21 күн бұрын
I think the American animal was changed to opossum to distinguish it from the Australian animal later given the same name (even though it’s a completely different species). Opossum is closer to the original pronunciation, but most English speaking people still don’t bother to pronounce the ‘o’. It’s usually clear what people mean because the American animal doesn’t exist in Australia, and the Australian animal doesn’t exist in the Americas.
Great research on this, sir! It's one thing to know a word came from native languages, but you went the extra mile and tracked down the tribes they came from. I learned several things in this video. I didn't know that skunk, possum, chipmunk, raccoon, others were originally native words. Also I didn't know that several of those animals are indigenous to the Americas, and unknown in Europe. One little pronunciation observation: as I recall in the US we are more like to pronounce Powhatan as, "pow-HAT-in" with the emphasis on the middle syllable. But of course, there's no assurance that the actual native pronunciation was that at all. I dare say you could make an entire KZitem channel out of native American names and their etymology. It's a fascinating subject. Such a shame that so many of those languages have become extinct. But a hearty Well done on this video!
@joepennant
5 жыл бұрын
You hate Alvin and the Chipmunks? Blasphemer! 'I told the Witch Doctor...' By the way, possums, skunks and coyotes are your neighbors there in Chicago...
@StephenGillie
5 жыл бұрын
Pumpkins ARE squash!
@miporsche
5 жыл бұрын
Pretty fun. I enjoy your vids.
@Petunia-Greene
5 жыл бұрын
On the subject of skunks: you usually only ever encounter them on a summer night when they’ve had the misfortune of becoming road pizza (there’s some slang for ya) and you can smell them for miles.
@jn1mrgn
4 жыл бұрын
I've seen them many times when walking in the evening. I've had them run up to me too.
@johnkilmartin5101
5 жыл бұрын
Moose, caribou, ooligan, quahog, tobacco, tobagan, ulu, macoutagan, umiak, kayak, mukluk, geoduck, muktuk, pemmican, wickup, wigwam, teepee, hogan, kekuli, skookum, saskatoon, whiskeyjack and, shaganappi are all derived from native American languages.
@UmatsuObossa
2 жыл бұрын
Raccoons are my favorite animal, and possums are ugly but beneficial. They eat pest insects and ticks. There's also an east coast store chain called "Wawa" from an native american word, but I couldn't tell you what it means. Edit: Apparently Wawa comes from "wewe" meaning "snow goose", but the chain was named for the town Wawa, PA.
@DestinationsChronicles
4 жыл бұрын
Oh, come on... zucchini dipped in Ranch... You must have eaten raw squash! A racoon once stole a bag of jelly beans that my kids left on the deck. It, then, laid across a branch in our oak tree for two days recovering from a belly ache.
@michele-kt
4 жыл бұрын
Some names of places on Long Island for that video .... Try Ronkonkoma, Quogue, Aquebogue, Amagansett, Hauppauge, Sagaponack.
@MrJacksjb
5 жыл бұрын
Since you mentioned the Mayflower and whiskey (since they were traveling from England I guess it would be whisky), their intent was to travel towards Virginia but owing to the fact that they were running out of beer they decided to take the more direct route to New England. So the reason that they all nearly starved or froze to death their first winter was because they were out of beer.
@keithhardy1784
Жыл бұрын
LAWRENCE: "Now, I don't personally have any sort of bad experiences with raccoons, so I don't really think I can jump on that bandwagon...." "Jump on the bandwagon." That's an Americanism too.
@cynthiax56
4 жыл бұрын
CHICAGO is a native American word and so is Minnesota, an Waukeegan....oh and DAKOTA too
@CrankyGrandma
5 жыл бұрын
I’ve had a possum in my kitchen. Not on purpose. Came in through an open window. My young son insisted a scary creature with sharp teeth was in the kitchen. We didn’t believe him. At first. Then we found it behind the kitchen trash can. American possums are FREAKY LOOKING. Also had raccoons in my siding. They ended up being very expensive squatters...damaged the siding and chewed their way into the house.
@AtarahDerek
5 жыл бұрын
So we got "squash" by squashing its root word into something shorter. How appropriate.
@thetetrarchofapathy9728
Жыл бұрын
The back-and-forth of land-occupancy from what we Americans usually call the French and Indian War, and it's preceding trade-war between French and English colonists (especially the fur traders) caused a lot of word confusion. Many places and items in the upper midwest (and I assume southern Canada) have anglicized pronunciations of french, and vice-versa, including approximations of native words.
@philmcdonald4778
5 жыл бұрын
You forgot , "Elizabeth Warren" .....I don't know what it means but it's Native American.
@TheNascarfan999
5 жыл бұрын
If you really hate The Chipmunks, you may enjoy this comedic Christmas parody: kzitem.info/news/bejne/lK6gk559enyYjY4
@ShadowACE1998
5 жыл бұрын
Never encountered an Opossum? Well drive from Chicago to Moline via Route 6. If you do that overnight you will encounter many Opossums. They don't tend to run across Interstate 80 all that much. LOL
@christelheadington1136
5 жыл бұрын
They most often make it all the way across, AKA road kill.
@PegR38
4 жыл бұрын
Sorry if you'e already done Native America place names, but a city very close to me in Michigan is Muskegon. The name "Muskegon" is derived from the Ottawa tribe term "Masquigon," meaning "marshy river or swamp" And, just south of Muskegon is the county of Ottawa
@jameswoodard4304
Жыл бұрын
You do realize that "Native America" is not a place, and "Native American" is not a language, right? The latter is a bit like talking about words that come "from African." "...African *languages*" is correct. The same is true of North America. There are/were hundreds of different languages, many of which were essentially unrelated to each other.
@RamonGil
5 жыл бұрын
Many people have mentioned the word Canoe, but though it is Native American, it's from the native Americans of the Caribbean, the Tainos. It found its way to English via Spanish. Another word like that is Bar-B-Q or Barbecue. It comes from the Taino word Barbacoa. Interestingly enough the word Kayak, though it entered the English language through the Innuits of Alaska/Canada/Greenland (qajak) has a cognate in the Taino language, namely Cayuco. Some claim, that it first entered the Danish language and the Danes brought it to North America where it was adopted into English.
@BostonBobby1961
5 жыл бұрын
We have a lake here in eastern Massachusetts called Lake Quannapowitt, which is located in Wakefield, MA. We have a combination of Native American names and English towns such as Wakefield, Plymouth, Gloucester. Probably named after their English counterparts. After All this is New England. LOL
@joeyskunk
2 жыл бұрын
Caucus is an Algonquin-language word. Many believe incorrectly it is latin, so the plural would be Caucii. The plural form is caucuses. In the USA politics, caucus is used very frequently.
@DakotaCelt1
4 жыл бұрын
Tatanka - Lakota for Bison. I thought RAccoon came from the MikMa'q people. Persimmon (from the Cree word pasiminan)' moccasin
@donovancox8401
4 жыл бұрын
Maybe you could do a video on place names in the US that have Native origins. I live in Florida and we have a lot of them just in our state. Miami, Tampa, Kissimmee, Immokalee, Alachua, Wachula, Homosassa, Tallahassee, Withlacoochee. Just to name a few. I believe that many of them are also from the Algonquin family, notably for me the Southwestern part of Florida (Naples) the Caloosa and Seminole tribes.
@et76039
Жыл бұрын
One theory of the murky origin of the word "okay" is that it comes from the Choctaw word "okey", with a meaning and pronunciation very close to the widespread modernized English word. The trade language Mobilian jargon was basically pidgin Choctaw, and used over most of the southeastern U.S., and as far east as Texas and Missouri. If this theory is correct, then its introduction by way of a trade language might explain how it came to be in general use without a clear pinpoint origin.
@brachio1000
3 жыл бұрын
5:44 -- "Opossum," actually, although I don't know anyone who says that. Surprised he's never seen one in Indiana or Chicago. Slow-moving and slow-witted, but they must be doing something right. They've been around twenty-three million years, and their ancestors were standing around, presumably looking stupid, when the dinosaurs disappeared.
@jillshort9241
4 жыл бұрын
Laurence, are you aware of the old poster of English that teachers could put up? In one corner, it had a Pilgrim asking an Indian, "What dost thou call these things that do run across the land?". The Native replies, "Skunk, opposum, chipmunk, Pontiac, Cadillac..."
@77Catguy
4 жыл бұрын
Perhaps this list might be of interest: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_from_indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas Missing was "sequoia," which--although not originally a native American word (in that form) was apparently named in honor of a Cherokee man who developed a writing system for his people's language: www.etymonline.com/word/sequoia
@angelfriend3710
4 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid my folks kept the cats food in a big bowl in the garage (outdoor cat mostly). One evening our cat was acting strangely, and we saw a possum about the size of a cocker spaniel eating the cat's food. My Dad put a .22 slug in it, and our neighbor skinned it, and took its teeth (1 1/2 inches long!). My Dad took pictures of it because no one would ever believe how big it was! And they didn't either...got the pictures out every time!
@otaku-sempai2197
3 жыл бұрын
We live in a region that has a lot of Native American place-names. My spouse and I are living in Lackawanna, NY (a suburb of Buffalo) which is adjacent to West Seneca. Just a bit to the north is Tonawanda, NY. And of course we are not far from Niagara Falls.
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