<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><blockquote>I couldn't tell from the original message if the person was asking for<br>an etymology of Manhattan, or what. But, right, it's not Nahuatl. >>:-)
<br></blockquote></blockquote><br>I'm sorry I was unclear, I meant to cite "man + hat + tan" just as an <br>example of something that isn't an etymology. I think it's just a way <br>for school children to remember the double t. At the same time, it
<br>might be that whoever transcribed what the local Manhattanite said was <br>the name tried to spell it in an easy way. <br>Susan Gilchrist