We have a search ‘tracker’ that I check each morning. We know we live in a place that’s difficilt to pronounce and even harder to spell (you have to really like vowels.)

That said, or attempted to say, it’s beautiful in SkanEatElEs, New York.

So what’s in a name? Small wonder why these are the ‘Finger Lakes’

More From Wikipedia 

The Finger Lakes region is a central part of the Iroquois homeland. The Iroquois tribes include the Seneca and Cayuga tribes, for which the two largest Finger Lakes are named. (more…)

So what’s in a name?

SkinnyAtlas, no Skaneateles

Here is a link to a guy has is exactly wrong. 

“There was some question yesterday about how to pronounce Skaneateles. It’s Skinny-atlas. I forget that it’s a strange looking word – it’s Iroquois, I believe. There are a lot of Native American place names around here: Canandaigua, Gananda, Cheektowaga, Tonawanda. I think they are pretty names, but I forget that they’re not always easily pronounced.”

We live here and we love it. And it’s SKAN, then E, then ATLAS. It’s Indian.

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Blame it on the Iriquoi Indians: It means long, beautiful lake.

any member of the North American Indian tribes speaking a language of the Iroquoian family—notably the Cayuga, Cherokee, Huron, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora, in addition to the Iroquois proper. The name Iroquois is a French derivation of Irinakhoiw, meaning “rattlesnakes,” their Algonquian enemy’s epithet. They call themselves Hodenosaunee, meaning…