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Originally Posted by Andyrondack
Starbucks, there's a story from the old country. From the Old Norse name for sedge( star) and river(beck), a Viking familly settled by a sedgey river near Harrogate in North Yorkshire and came to be known after their home as Starbeck but one letter got changed so morphed into Starbuck , a familly with that name is recorded as living around the right place in the 14th C, long after the Vikings first showed up. Eventually a branch of the Starbucks became Quakers and emigrated to Nantucket to become a famous whaling dynasty, the name then got into Herman Melville's novel about whaling, Moby Dick. One of the founders of the original coffee shop in Seattle was a big fan of the book and he persuaded the other shareholders to name the shop Starbucks after the first mate of the whaling ship.
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Oooo! Sedges! I've often stopped at Starbuck's after a moist morning collecting sedges.
D.H.