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Sorry, alla yous are wrong! George from chi Cah go.
Not chew cog go?
Sha cah ga
chug cog go
First wife was from chi caw go!
Chicago is named after a wild and smelly onion. They all still grow in the region in prairie land or forested preserves.
According to Wikipedia, the word “Chicago” is a French translation of the Miami-Illinois word “shikaakwa” which means stinky onion.
I thought it stood for mass homicide
Worcester
Wu-stir
You know the story behind this?
Meriweather Lewis of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, it was said, had a notably poor command of English grammar. When they reached a ridge overlooking the yet to be named valley and he saw the water running at the bottom, he turned to his partner and asked, “Will, am it a river?”
And so the name and its associated pronunciation came to be.
Thanks! I did not know that! Scary part i hung out with some hard core Oregonians, in the 1990’s they were very proud of their state.