Puget Sound — say it like a local

Ashli Blow

Ashli Blow • Apr 28, 2025

Jan 30, 2019

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                <h1>Puget Sound — say it like a local</h1>
                <h2><p>Puget Sound hasn't always been known as Puget Sound — and it may even have a different name in the future. With the help of an extremely old map, Knute Berger charts the history, and the Californiazation, of Seattle's salty sound... or is it a bay?</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/ashli-blow/">Ashli Blow</a></p> 
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            <p>Puget Sound hasn't always been known as Puget Sound — and it may even have a different name in the future. With the help of an extremely old map, Knute Berger charts the history, and <a href="https://crosscut.com/2015/12/did-you-just-say-the-puget-sound?ref=avalancheghost.one">the Californiazation</a>, of Seattle's salty sound... or is it a bay?</p><figure class="kg-card kg-embed-card"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://player.pbs.org/partnerplayer/CY8TSj7omZuH85P-fe7TyQ==/?start=0&amp;end=0&amp;topbar=false&amp;autoplay=false&amp;endscreen=false" width="100%"></iframe></figure>
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Puget Sound hasn't always been known as Puget Sound — and it may even have a different name in the future. With the help of an extremely old map, Knute Berger charts the history, and the Californiazation, of Seattle's salty sound... or is it a bay?

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By Ashli Blow

Ashli Blow is a Seattle-based freelance writer who talks with people — in places from urban watersheds to remote wildernesses — about the environment around them. She’s been working in journal