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[Facts] Cherokee Name
My great great great grandfathers name is David Wassaugh (Womaugh) Green. What is the WASSAUGH (WOMAUGH) connection?
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It's probably just a pronunciation difference. When you consider that Cherokee is spoken with the tongue pressed against the bottom teeth, it gives all sounds a kind of lisping quality when you study them. Try saying them in the way that English-speakers talk and they tend to sound different. Both spellings are probably the same name spoken in two different ways.
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