[Magdalen] US Higher Education

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

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> Should it have been named Duchess County without the "t" given that
> lineage?



​It was named for a Duchess (what a history buff!  Look at you!) but, no,
the T is correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutchess_County,_New_York​


​Scroll down to "history" for a nice picture of the Dutchess of York, for
whom the County was named.​ The spelling varied over time, as may be
readily discerned by a review of a number of sites online.

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