Thursday, November 14, 2013

Meaning of Saucony

Today, I ran across a posting on wiki.answers.com entitled "What is the native American meaning of Saucony?" The answer they gave is "running water." The responder was probably trying to be funny due to the Saucony running shoe company and the nearby Saucony Creek.

The real meaning is "a place of outlet, the place where a smaller stream enters into a larger one."

You can find this on page 1 of "The Centennial History of Kutztown, Pennsylvania: Celebrating the Centennial of the Incorporation of the Borough", one of those public domain works Google has preserved,

Excerpt from "The Centennial History of Kutztown" defining Saucony

As I was writing this (November 2013), I noticed that Google Maps misspells Saucony Creek as "Sacony Creek".

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