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Mencken ( The American Language , Supplement Two, p.
The South was indeed the Bible Belt, as H.L. Mencken labeled it.
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.
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.
Mencken, among others, claims that it is from French aufait meaning `mastery' presumably introduced via New Orleans.