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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 ( The American Language , Supplement Two, p.
Finally, concerning the etymology of savvy , Mr. Lawrence should not believe everything he reads in sources such as Mencken's American Language . In fact, I checked in another dozen English dictionaries, and they all state that savvy comes from Spanish sabe . These dictionaries are simply wrong on this point (as they are, I might add, on many other etymologies).
Mencken line I've used before: "For ever problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, plausible and wrong!"
It would be difficult to compile such a work without ready access to Mencken, Wilde, Shaw, and others of their sort.