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Other notables in this necessarily brief catalogue of American toponymists include Henry Gannett, working around the turn of the century, who compiled several state gazetteers and a still influential study on the origin of U.S. place names; H. L. Mencken, with several seminal chapters in his American Language (1936); and Kelsie Harder, whose Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names: United States and Canada (1976) remains the most reliable resource for place-name origins.
Mencken, among others, claims that it is from French aufait meaning `mastery' presumably introduced via New Orleans.
Mencken ( The American Language , Supplement Two, p.
Royko wasn't quite a Twain, or a Mencken, but his writing was distinctive and memorable and in its time the closest thing to lasting literature in a daily paper.
It would be difficult to compile such a work without ready access to Mencken, Wilde, Shaw, and others of their sort.