Talk:Grand Teton

USGS GNIS entry RedWolf 23:17, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Pronunciation of the name of the mountain should be added.

Etymology

Parts of the Northern United States were initially explored by the French from New France. This is shown by names such as Detroit, Des Moines, etc. "Grand Teton" means "big tit teat" in French, and this is a possible interpretation of the shape of the mountain. Translation edited by User:Dominicanpapi82

Thus, I wonder about whether the indicated etymology is correct. David.Monniaux 15:01, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I thought that was true, also, but I did some research and it is apparently an urban legend. Please see

• http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/yhtwo3.html
• http://leanleft.com/2004/10/13/calling-ktk-confirm-or-dispel-this-myth/

and references therein.

-- hike395 16:39, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

From Huxley's "Encylopedia of Mountains", p. 296 - "early French travelers, coming from the west, named the three most prominent points the "Trois Tétons," the "Three Breasts;" these were the Grand, Middle, and South Tetons". Be suspicious of the "urban legend" research at the leanleft website - colloquial French as spoken by a ten-generations-removed-from-France half-breed trapper 200 years ago is unlikely to bear much resemblance to proper Parisian, and I would only pay much attention to a French language specialist's analysis. Of course, the conflicting etymologies is itself interesting content for this article... Stan 16:48, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Right. Especially since, as far as I know, téton or tétin was much more common to mean "breasts" in the 17th century than it is now (where it is somewhat colloquial). (I'm a native French speaker, by the way.) David.Monniaux 17:11, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I can't find a reference for it, but grand tétons' is how you say big breasts in Cajun French. There's a video of this guy saying the same thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.201.182.162 (talk) 16:23, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

References

Cultural reference

Grand Teton serves as the main location in the 1900 story The Moon Metal by Garrett P. Serviss. List of fictional currencies#Novel names has some further details and references; I leave it to editors of this page to determine whether this would count as "trivia" to include here. TheGrappler (talk) 04:24, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Ascent vs Descent

What goes up comes down right? I'm ignorant re: climbing terms, so was mystified re: the mention of who "descended" first. Can the section re: Descents be expanded to explain what this is all about. Thanks.