Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1913 — Gotham Means Place of Goats. [ARTICLE]

Gotham Means Place of Goats.

A learned writer informs us that Gotham means the place of the goats. 'lt has been commonly supposed that Gotham was named after the Goths. But that is not so, according to the informant, who has proven that the name of the village in Nottinghamshire, England, from whence the originated, was really "Gat-Ham;" and "Gat” being the Anglo-Saxon for "goat,” Gatham, afterward Gotham, simply means the home of the goats. So when the title is applied to New York, it means the place of the goats. This derivation is proved by the proper pronunciation o(<the word, which is Go-Tham, and not Gotham, as it is often pronounced. However, the only possessor of goats in this neck of the woods are “The Three Wise Men of Gotham”—the mayor, the police commissioner antkthe district attorney.