Poughkeepsie

English Etymology From a word in Wappinger en umu -, roughly umu U-puku-ipi-sing the reed-covered lodge by the little-water place. http://airpaul.com/wheres_poughkeepsie_1.pdf Where'e Poughkeepsie? Finding The Lost Spring 2008 Paul Joffe Poughkeepsie Encyclopædia Britannica Online http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/472957/Poughkeepsie 2012 Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. https://web.archive.org/web/20150227234707/http://www.britannica.com:80/EBchecked/topic/472957/Poughkeepsie 27 February 2015 Pronunciation en /pəˈkɪpsi/ en ɪpsi 3 Proper noun en city/county seat co/Dutchess County s/New York c/USA. TopoZone: Poughkeepsie en Penny Singer Bob Detmer, a Visionary Video Maker w:The New York Times 1994-10-30 https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/30/nyregion/bob-detmer-a-visionary-video-maker.html 0362-4331 Back in the days when Poughkeepsie was a company town and the company was International Business Machines, it wasn't unusual for 18-year-olds in Poughkeepsie to go straight from high school to I.B.M. https://web.archive.org/web/20220427150904/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/30/nyregion/bob-detmer-a-visionary-video-maker.html Derived terms en Poughkeepsian References