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Puget Sound
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English
Etymology
Originally "Puget's Sound". en Peter Puget English Hugenot Royal Navy officer = 1765 1822, who accompanied Captain George Vancouver on his 1792 exploration of the Salish Sea.
Pronunciation
en /ˈpjuː.d͡ʒɪt ˈsaʊnd/ /ˈpjuː.d͡ʒət ˈsaʊnd/
Proper noun
Puget sound
en sound along the northwestern coast of s/Washington c/USA.
en Salish Sea
en 2018-08-10 Airplane taken from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has crashed Paige Cornwell;Agueda Pacheco-Flores w:The Seattle Times https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/airplane-taken-from-seattle-tacoma-international-airport-has-crashed/ A Horizon Air worker took off Friday night in one of the airline’s Q400 turboprops at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and crashed on an island in south Puget Sound after being coaxed by air-traffic control to try to land and trailed by two fighter jets, officials said. https://web.archive.org/web/20180830183400/https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/airplane-taken-from-seattle-tacoma-international-airport-has-crashed/
Derived terms
en Puget Sounder
en Puget Sound pine
Translations
a sound in Washington
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 普吉特海灣, cmn 普吉特灣, cmn 皮吉特灣, cmn 普捷灣
Finnish: fi Pugetinlahti
Lushootseed: lut x̌ʷəlč
Spanish: es estrecho de Puget m