What's with all the "kill"ing?

[uptroutfishr]

From [url=http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid=1555&dekey=S0779800&gwp=8&cu rtab=1555_1:ba0a0]http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid=1555&dekey=S0779800&gwp=8&cu rtab=1555_1[/url:ba0a0]
in regard to the definition of 'stoop':

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REGIONAL NOTE Originally brought to the Hudson Valley of New York by settlers from the Netherlands, a few items of Dutch vocabulary have survived there from colonial times until the present. Stoop, ?a small porch,? comes from Dutch stoep; this word is now in general use in the Northeast and is probably spreading. The word olicook, which appears to be dying out, means ?doughnut,? and comes from Dutch oliekoek?literally, ?oil cake.? And the Dutch word kill for a small running stream is used throughout New York State.
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Also, from [url=http://www.answers.com/topic/burg:ba0a0]http://www.answers.com/topic/burg[/url:ba0a0]

burg (b?rg)
n.

1. Informal. A city or town: ?There are no more opportunities for you in this burg? (Damon Runyon).
2. A fortified or walled town in early or medieval Europe.

[Probably from -burg in place names such as HARRISBURG, from Middle English burgh, town, from Old English burg. Sense 2, ultimately from Germanic *burgs, hill fort.]

[fcch]

It came from Dutch kil, from Middle Dutch kille "river bed, channel"

Ref: [url=http://www.takeourword.com/Issue014.html:cf846]http://www.takeourword.com/Issue014.html[/url:cf846]
(isn't Google a neat thing)

This tread reminds me of the "things you hear in a flyshop"

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Christopher Chin
Jonquiere Quebec

[Andrew Mann]

Thanks for your help, everyone. You've settled that question.

[NJwrangler]

on the subject of amusing place names, how about Blue Ball, PA?!

or the oddly named Jersey Shore, PA, which happens to be closer to ohio than the jersey shore!

[njsimonson]

Buttzville, ND - Tops in my homestate!

[Rusty Rat]

I am sorry but I just could'nt resist writing my post yesterday, end of the day, nearing the weekend. You know how it goes. Of course Royal was leading you in the right direction while I , oh well. So now we are nominating towns! I vote for Two-dot, Montana. RR

[ftroop7]

I think there is one called Bird in Hand also in Pa.

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"If it was easy anybody could do it"
Timothy S. Furey Sr.

[electricbill]

J.C. .....PETA has already embarassed themselves here in N.Y. ...they wanted either Fishkill or Peekskill to change their names to something less offensive....they got laughed out of the town meeting...AND the local papers had a ball with it!!
bill

[mtnman]

Well here in Alabama we have places called

Slick Lizard (small community that also happens to have a smoke house restaraunt with a saying Come fill yer gizzard at Slick Lizard)

Buzzard Roost
'Possum Trot
Arctic
Boars Tusk
Frog Level
Goat Ranch
Cranal
Dismal
Low Pressure
Slick Ford
Cobbs Store

and thats just one county lolol

a few more of Bamas greats

Who'd A Thought It
The Booger Hole
Boogerhill
Allgood
Arab
Burnt Corn
Dog Town
Eclectic
Eutaw - (Couldn't spell Utah?)
Gay Meadows
Hurricane - (Where else)
Opp - (Think Naughty By Nature)
Smuteye
Blue's Old Stand
Slapout
Pineapple
Flea Hop
Bug Tussle