[Footnote 89: Whitney's Language and the Study of Language, p. 69.--"Ein natürliches Volksgefühl, oft auch der Volkswitz, den nicht mehr verstandenen Namen neu umprägte und mit anderen lebenden Wörtern in Verbindung setzte." Dr. J. Bender, _Die deutschen Ortsnamen_ (2te Ausg.) p. 2.]
[Footnote 90: Haldeman's Analytic Orthography, §279, and "Etymology as a means of Education," in Pennsylvania School Journal for October, 1868.]
[Footnote 91: "Swatawro," on Sayer and Bennett's Map, 1775.]
[Footnote 92: "Whiskey Jack," the name by which the Canada Jay (Perisoreus Canadensis) is best known to the lumbermen and hunters of Maine and Canada, is the Montagnais _Ouishcatcha[n]_ (Cree, _Ouiskeshauneesh_), which has passed perhaps through the transitional forms of 'Ouiske Jean' and 'Whiskey Johnny.' The Shagbark Hickory nuts, in the dialect of the Abnakis called _s'k[oo]skada´mennar_, literally, 'nuts to be cracked with the teeth,' are the 'Kuskatominies' and 'Kisky Thomas' nuts of descendants of the Dutch colonists of New Jersey and New York. A contraction of the _plural_ form of a Massachusetts noun-generic,--_asquash_, denoting 'things which are eaten green, or without cooking,' was adopted as the name of a garden vegetable,--with conscious reference, perhaps, to the old English word _squash_, meaning 'something soft or immature.' Sometimes etymology overreaches itself, by regarding an aboriginal name as the corrupt form of a foreign one. Thus the _maskalongé_ or 'great long-nose' of the St. Lawrence (see p. 43) has been reputed of French extraction,--_masque elongé_: and _sagackomi_, the northern name of a plant used as a substitute for or to mix with tobacco,--especially, of the Bearberry, _Arctostaphylos uva-ursi_,--is resolved into _sac-à-commis_, "on account of the Hudson's Bay officers carrying it in bags for smoking," as Sir John Richardson believed (Arctic Searching Expedition, ii. 303). It was left for the ingenuity of a Westminster Reviewer to discover that _barbecue_ (denoting, in the language of the Indians of Guiana, a wooden frame or grille on which all kinds of flesh and fish were dry-roasted, or cured in smoke,) might be a corruption of the French _barbe à queue_, i.e. 'from snout to tail;' a suggestion which appears to have found favor with lexicographers.]