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Lynchburg sounds like it got it's name from either a lynching or a guy named Lynch.
All correct - and we must keep in mind that the idea of a "Germany" is only about 200 years old. There used to be a lot of small kingdoms and duchies before - they only shared the common language, which at that time was not so far away from English. The Anglo-Saxons came from a (now totally insignificant) part of northern Germany named Angeln. And the dialect (some say it is a language of its own, Plattdeutsch) that is spoken there has a lot of words that are the same in English, e.g. "gift".Many people think of Germanic peoples as originating in/around Germany.
All correct - and we must keep in mind that the idea of a "Germany" is only about 200 years old. There used to be a lot of small kingdoms and duchies before - they only shared the common language, which at that time was not so far away from English. The Anglo-Saxons came from a (now totally insignificant) part of northern Germany named Angeln. And the dialect (some say it is a language of its own, Plattdeutsch) that is spoken there has a lot of words that are the same in English, e.g. "gift".
Interestingly back before the Revolution, there was a man named Lynch in Virginia that got with other colonists to decry 'Torie' raids and confiscation being done against them. They came up with the 'Lynch Law' which enforced revenge against the British. Lynch eventually made his way down to Flat Rock, South Carolina, and the old Lynch Cemetery is located there. I chanced upon it back in 1999 on my trek out to Tennessee. Two Lynchburg's I know of; the first in Virginia where I was born, and the second here in Tennessee close by along with Winchester, another Virginia transplant.Lynchburg sounds like it got it's name from either a lynching or a guy named Lynch.
I wonder if that has to do with a lack of standardized spelling when those settlements were created as to whether or not they had an 'h' or not?Also, here's something random.
The City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has an "h" on the end of it. Other places named "Pittsburg" in other states (such as "Pittsburg Landing" in Tennessee) don't have the "h." Other burg's (such as "Gettysburg, Pennsylvania") don't have an "h."
I can tell when somebody is not familiar with the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area if they spell the name of the city without an "h."
I think you have that flip flopped, Confederates would use closest town aka Manassas, Sharpsburg. Union would use Rivers aka Bull Run, AntietamThanks didn't know that it was a German word. Pretty cool. I knew that the confederates would mostly name battles after the rivers and creeks than rather the town etc.
That's what I really love here. And I'm glad we weren't scolded by the mods to have deviated that much. It's all about learning new interesting things!Wow! All of this trivia that began with one simple question about "burg".