Schuylkill

[Jeremy Osner]

Brian D. McCary wrote:
> 
> As mentioned, Schuylkill is a river.  Kill is a dutch (I believe) word for
> river or creek, so in areas originally settled by the Dutch, you'll find
> waterways ending in -kill.  This was a source of fascination to my eight
> year old mind when I first heard it, full of ominous suggestion.  'Course,
> now I know it's just language....
> 
> Brian McCary

This reminds me of the effort by animal rights activists a couple years
back to have Fishkill, NY renamed.

Jeremy