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Old December 12, 2009, 12:31 PM   #9
James K
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Thanks, Scorch,

So it was the other way around, with the tribe being named for French bad guys, or maybe just an odd coincidence. The pronunciation of "A-patch-ee" is probably from Americans thinking that the word is Spanish, "A-pah-che" with the Americans changing the "chay" to "chee."

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