Posted on 04/25/2019 11:33:44 AM PDT by ransomnote
I saw it thanks.Can’t believe I am caught up :)
My Town: A little history behind the Poway name
By Staff
Nov. 18, 2009 |12 AM
The name Poway originates from a Kumeyaay Indian word that apparently had various meanings ranging from “meeting place of the valleys” to “meeting of the waters.” Another possible derivation was the “point of a stone spear.” The former makes sense from the standpoint that some of the largest indigenous village locations were close to where Poway Creek and Rattlesnake Creek merged near the present day Community Park. Another village site was located along Poway Road near Beeler Creek Trail and Cobblestone Creek Road where Beeler Creek (originally spelled Buehler) and Poway Creek merge.
Whatever the original meaning, the name, with numerous “Europeanizations” has been found in early records dating back to at least 1839 and even 1774. While Poway was never a part of any Spanish or Mexican land grant, a map of the Rancho San Bernardo grant does show a creek line to the southeast with the word “Paguay” or “Paquay.” Whatever the meaning, the spelling and pronunciation have a long and interesting history.
To date, I have identified at least 12 different spellings of our fair city’s name: Paguay, Paguai, Pauai, Pauaii, Paui, Pauy, Powai, Powaii, Paua, Paquai, Paquay and finally Poway. In the earliest attempts to put the word in print, there seems to have been an effort to put a hard “K” or “G” sound before the ending “eye” such as “Pa-gwah-e.” This is not pure conjecture on my part but receives some validity from studies by Chalmers Scott, a noted linguist, and when compared to present day Kumeyaay pronunciations of many native words.
The pronunciation of the ending being “EYE” is easier to pin down. Many Kumeyaay and other indigenous place names end this way: Otay, Guatay, Mataguay, Havasupai, Ipai and so on. Further evidence as to the pronunciation as “POW’-eye” comes from a poem written in the 1890s by Robert McGregor. The first two lines only rhyme if you pronounce it Pow-eye:
Come with me ’neath the deep blue sky
Out to old Poway,
Come while fleecy clouds float by
Out to Old Poway
A longtime and passionate advocate of pronouncing the name Pow-eye was Victoria Michaels, a longtime Poway school teacher who corrected anyone who dared to say “Pow-way.” As a side note of interest, off of Twin Peaks Road between Midland and Community roads is Victoria Estates Lane, named for Victoria (Vicki) Michaels by her husband, Al Michaels, who subdivided the property.
The present day spelling of Poway as “Poway” was finally set in stone when in 1870, the first post office was established with Castanos Paine as the first postmaster.
My thanks to the late Mary van Dam whose book, “As I Remember Poway,” was the source of much of this information. The book is available, I believe, at the Poway Historical Society’s museum in “Old Pow-eye.”
Per Q1646: THEY WANT RELIGIOUS WARS.
This is a bit of a slide, but IMO worth reporting: your expat Buckeye FreeQ living in metro Atlanta was traveling from his native land to his temp home in GA and was stuck in a southbound traffic jam on I-75 in midtown Atlanta. (Now I understand a lot of you may be laughing heartily at the utterly absurd claim of a traffic Charlie Foxtrot in Atlanta, but I assure you they DO happen :/)
Anyway...Mrs. Guy and I were at a motorist standstill spot which happened to be directly across from the Turner Broadcasting building...east side of I-75.
EMI_Guy nearly slopped his dripper at what he saw on top of that TBS building. It was a statue loud and proud of a golden owl. HUGE! Guy did a classic double take that would’ve made Jackie Gleason proud and shot a pic of it for pwoof. It looks one hell of a lot like the owl on Epstein Island!
(Working from an Android so posting a pic is a son-of-a-bee. I will post from another device if demand warrants such.)
NRA CONVENTION: President Trump FULL Speech
Published on Apr 26, 2019
"This is the quote group that stopped me in my tracks..."
“tried for a coup”
“corruption at the highest level”
“trying for an overthrow”
“and we caught ‘em”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n85kv6H19Co
at 11 min...
Click that smile to take you to 10:50 of the video!
Must not have jumped out too much lol
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3744672/posts?page=417#417
ICYMI
https://bgr.com/2019/04/26/national-archives-dc-arsonist/
Attempted arson at the National Archives.
Lots of fires in high profile locations during the last month. Seems like a lot since POTUS was elected, too. What do the derps want to hide/destroy?
I hear he has 3 balls if you count his wife
Oliver North
NRA
resignation
drama
Waiting for the President to come on live.
HTML for the above:
Same sample PMed to you...
~Easy
https://twitter.com/RealMAGASteve/status/1122287509289996288
Creepy Joe’s self-admission that he was ready to prostitute himself from 1974 when he had hair, not plugs.
To cleanse the palate, here's a picture of a KFC building shaped like a chicken. kek
Kit loves him some spicy fried chicken. Mostly from Popeye's.
President Trump is up now!
RSBN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGcQBt5ZeOc
Golden State Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3QymEg1aJw
Fox News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FZGEi_TDfQ
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