Oswego

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Tuesday, August 13, 2002 3:19 pm -0400 Laurence Horn
<laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

> At 2:33 PM -0400 8/13/02, Barnhart wrote:
>> Does anyone have a gloss for _Oswego_.  It's an American Indian word,
>> from the Syracuse region of New York State.  It appears in _Oswego tea_
>> and _Oswego bass_.
>>
> And in _Oswego, NY_.

And whenever we went to Oswego when I was a kid, we'd sing "Oswego into the
wild blue yonder..."

There's no etymological info on the county website, but there is a contact
e-mail for the town historian:   bdix at oswegocounty.com.  They probably know.

Lynne


Dr M Lynne Murphy
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School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
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