What bothers me is the name of the Strait of Juan de Fucha, not Puget Sound. You see, after Juan the Fucha entered the Sound and found only Seattle, he said, "Aw, Pug it!" and sailed away. Later, after his ship was wrecked of Titlek in Alaska, the logbook was found. Juan wasn't a very good speller and had much worse handwriting, and what he'd entered looked like "Pooj et" but as one word. Later on, when the people complained about the noise coming from Seattle drifting across the water of "Pujet" (as it was then called) the newspapers started playing up the beauty of the "Pujet Sound." From there it was one a type on a government map to the name we know today.

As for Juan de Fucha, he was originally from Brooklyn where they pronounced "the" at "de." When the ship he commanded sailed between the landfalls and into what became Puget Sound, Juan was playing poker and held the cards four through eight, although of different suits. Like Wild Bill Hickock's "Aces and Eights" later on, this took Juan's name and was known as the "Straight of Juan De Fucha." A cartographer ran out of the letters "g" and "h" and printed it as "Strait of Juan de Fuca", but the "h" has put back in Juan's nickname later on.

Juan's real name, let it be remember, was really Jean-Jacques Casanova and he was French.

Now you know the whole story.