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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9013056" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>Like a lot of American place names it is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusett" target="_blank">American Indian name</a> turned into English.</p><p></p><h3>Endonyms</h3><p>The native name is written <em>Massachuseuck</em> (<em>Muhsachuweeseeak</em>) /məhs at͡ʃəw iːs iː ak/—singular <em>Massachusee</em> (<em>Muhsachuweesee</em>).[<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank">citation needed</a></em>] It translates as "at the great hill,"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusett#cite_note-salwen172-2" target="_blank">[2]</a> referring to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blue_Hill" target="_blank">Great Blue Hill</a>, located in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton,_Massachusetts" target="_blank">Ponkapoag</a>.</p><p></p><h3>Exonyms</h3><p>English settlers adopted the term <em>Massachusett</em> for the name for the people, language, and ultimately as the name of their colony which became the American state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" target="_blank">Massachusetts</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_(explorer)" target="_blank">John Smith</a> first published the term <em>Massachusett</em> in 1616.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusett#cite_note-salwen172-2" target="_blank">[2]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narragansett_people" target="_blank">Narragansett people</a> called the tribe Massachêuck.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusett#cite_note-salwen172-2" target="_blank">[2]</a></p><p></p><p>Yes.</p><p></p><p>English is functionally terrible in the written language being a poor match to the sounds of words. Ideally we'd have one letter per sound and it would be unambiguous how to pronounce something from how it is written. But English is an amalgamation of a bunch of other languages with different incompatible rules sort of jumbled together and overlapping and multiple letters doing more than double duty on sounds. It really bugs me that stuff from other languages get thrown into English with yet more different weird rules and so the spelling without context of those obscure specific rules gives a completely false impression of the spoken word.</p><p></p><p>This makes English a very subtle written language, meaning not "Sub tull" but "Suddle" where everything is weird.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9013056, member: 2209"] Like a lot of American place names it is an [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusett']American Indian name[/URL] turned into English. [HEADING=2]Endonyms[/HEADING] The native name is written [I]Massachuseuck[/I] ([I]Muhsachuweeseeak[/I]) /məhs at͡ʃəw iːs iː ak/—singular [I]Massachusee[/I] ([I]Muhsachuweesee[/I]).[[I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed']citation needed[/URL][/I]] It translates as "at the great hill,"[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusett#cite_note-salwen172-2'][2][/URL] referring to the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blue_Hill']Great Blue Hill[/URL], located in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton,_Massachusetts']Ponkapoag[/URL]. [HEADING=2]Exonyms[/HEADING] English settlers adopted the term [I]Massachusett[/I] for the name for the people, language, and ultimately as the name of their colony which became the American state of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts']Massachusetts[/URL]. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_(explorer)']John Smith[/URL] first published the term [I]Massachusett[/I] in 1616.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusett#cite_note-salwen172-2'][2][/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narragansett_people']Narragansett people[/URL] called the tribe Massachêuck.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusett#cite_note-salwen172-2'][2][/URL] Yes. English is functionally terrible in the written language being a poor match to the sounds of words. Ideally we'd have one letter per sound and it would be unambiguous how to pronounce something from how it is written. But English is an amalgamation of a bunch of other languages with different incompatible rules sort of jumbled together and overlapping and multiple letters doing more than double duty on sounds. It really bugs me that stuff from other languages get thrown into English with yet more different weird rules and so the spelling without context of those obscure specific rules gives a completely false impression of the spoken word. This makes English a very subtle written language, meaning not "Sub tull" but "Suddle" where everything is weird. [/QUOTE]
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