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October 19, 2006

Crazy Fact of the Day

The names of the island nation Jamaica, Jamaica Plain, MA and Jamaica, Queens, NY have three independent etymologies. They're all Anglicizations of Native American words, but there are three different roots.

Posted by todd at October 19, 2006 8:08 AM

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