Talk:Kentuck Knob

Must be some fascinating etymology!

Silly me -- I assumed Kentuck Knob would be in Kentucky. How did the name come about? Is there a Penn's Knob in Kentucky? :-) Does Knob have some non-obvious regional connotation? (There's some humor here, but I'd really like to know) Howard C. Berkowitz 20:46, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia claims (without giving a source) that "The name Kentuck Knob is credited to the late eighteenth-century settler David Askins, who intended to move from Western Pennsylvania to Kentucky, but then reconsidered and remained at this very property, naming his tract of land Little Kentuck. It subsequently became known the Kentuck District of Stewart Township, one of the county's several rural mountainous townships. Ever since the summit of the property has been called Kentuck Knob." This sounds pretty plausible, but I didn't include that information here because I can't independently confirm it (yet). It may be historically accurate or just a local folktale.

Roger A. Lohmann 21:03, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

P.S.: To my knowledge, William Penn never went exploring in Kentucky, so if there is a Penn's Knob, it would probably be named for some one else with that surname! ;-) In this part of the country (and further west), combining a surname and a geological feature were actually very common etymological practices.

P.S.S. You may not remember that famous discovery of the Scandinavian explorer Fjord's fjord?

Apropos of the P.S.S., no, I wasn't familiar with that event, but I had heard of an ad campaign for Scandinavia, from a U.S. car company: "Fjord has a better idea."

There actually are some interesting sociological perspectives on imports of cars. Some of my Japanese colleagues have said American cars would be quite desirable imports, if some market realities were recognized, such as putting the driver's seat on the right.

THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU for letting me be involved with a stress-free article. Howard C. Berkowitz 21:51, 25 July 2010 (UTC)