Talk:Juanita Beach Park

Modern Lushootseed spelling
The English speaking settlers were often bad at recording the nuances of Lushootseed pronunciation. I've seen Tahb-tahb-iuh, TUHB-tuh-byook', and TAHB-tah-byook'w. The translation is recorded as "loamy place", but I'm having trouble finding anything in the Bates et al. dictionary that would correspond to loam. I think that the last syllable is probably bixʷ because byook'w is also what settlers recorded the last syllable of Snoqualmie (sdukʷalbixʷ) as. AdJHu 胡 22:57, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Unless there's a reliable source with that spelling, then it should not be listed. WP:V must be upheld; see WP:VNT.  Sounder Bruce  23:06, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @SounderBruce Gotcha, would a dictionary entry corresponding to loam count? I didn't find one, but I might have just missed something. AdJHu 胡 23:34, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * That would count as WP:SYNTH, so no. Even if it might be incorrect, it's better to use the documented name.  Sounder Bruce  23:42, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * To follow up on this, I found and cited the proper source for the modern Lushootseed spelling, including the page numbers. Puget Sound Geography by Waterman et al. is probably the most reputable source there is on place names in the Puget Sound area. AdJHu 胡  23:11, 19 July 2023 (UTC)