Geoff, I've heard Oregon is derived from a Native American name for the Columbia River.

That's the other main theory, all right. Funny thing, nobody really knows for sure.

How is Owyhee pronounced? And what other place (completely unlike it) is it named for?

Pronounced just as it's spelled. As for the place, I'll guess it's the Sandwich Islands.

- Respecfully submittted by an Oregonism

If you're a real Oregonism, you host parasitic hydrophyllic organsims on your feet, and in the summer you don't tan, you rust! Remember the Oregon Un-greeting cards of the 1970s?