http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/08/22/washington-state-considers-changing-the-names-of-soap-lake-squamish-harbor-and-more Comments On: Washington State Considers Changing the Names of Soap Lake, Squamish Harbor, and More by Eli Sanders en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 20:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Simone]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:02:14 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Terrileedee]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:44:27 -0700 The Stranger
First up, Mount Tahoma instead of Mount Rainier. Rename the entire length of the Duwamish/Green River to the Duwamish River. There's no common native name for the Columbia River, so let's just call it the Oregon River (and move the counties that contain it to the state of Oregon.) "Whulge" is a bit ugly for Puget Sound, so I might make an exception there.

On a related note outside of the scope of this commission, we should also rename Pierce, Thurston, Mason, and Jefferson counties after major rivers to Puyallup, Nisqually, Skokomish, and Hoh counties. (King can stay now that it honors MLK.)
Posted by Cascadian]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:37:32 -0700 The Stranger
So that they at least could hear what it's supposed to sound like.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:15:43 -0700 The Stranger http://www.languagegeek.com/salishan/lus…

When the first Europeans and Anglo-Americans came to the area in the 1880s and earlier, they came up with anglicized spellings like "Tulalip" for "dxʷlilap"; I imagine that if the name "nəxʷx̣áʔəy" had been spelled by those same settlers, they'd have come up with something like Noowhyeye.
Posted by Simac]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:12:21 -0700 The Stranger
@3: The DNR page has it as Lake Smokium.
Posted by Eli Sanders]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:10:41 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Terrileedee]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:43:56 -0700 The Stranger Posted by DandyFellow]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:54:46 -0700 The Stranger Moses smell the roses, is it that hard to copy and paste?
Posted by venomlash]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:33:35 -0700 The Stranger