Apoxsee

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Creek apaksi (“tomorrow”), not a Creek place name, but a word chosen around 1900 by the railroad company which built a depot there.[1]

Proper noun

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Apoxsee

  1. A ghost town in Florida, United States.

References

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  1. ^ Jack B. Martin, Margaret McKane Mauldin, A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee (2004, U. of Nebraska Press, →ISBN), page 172
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