Talk:Kosciusko County, Indiana

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I am assume this was named for Tadeusz Kosciuszko? --- Anonymoues 10:57 Oct 26, 2002 (UTC)

This is correct. General George Washington named the land after him as a thanks for Poland's support in the Revolutionary War.

[edit] Correct Pronunciation

I'm aware that residents of Kosciusko County do not pronounce their county's name in a way that old Tadeusz's countrymen across the pond would recognize. That doesn't make it wrong, funny, or invalid, of course... just different, and not as a Polish scholar would recognize. There are a lot of American cities like this... Coeur d'Alene, Idaho's name is pronounced in a way that isn't quite Parisian, and there are similar tales to tell about the pronunciations of Cairo, Illinois, Paris, Texas, and other places. This is a long-winded comment to request that someone--preferably a Kosciusko County resident--put up an IPA explanation of the local (and therefore correct) pronunciation of this county's name. Prosze. Xenophon777 22:16, 10 August 2007 (UTC)