The US city is named after the English town (from which several prominent colonists had come), which itself is sometimes said to be named as a contraction ofBotolph'stown orBotolph'sstone (the nameBotolph itself coming fromOld EnglishBotwulf, fromboda +wulf). However, this is uncertain.
2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, inThe New York Times[1], archived fromthe original on8 June 2019:
There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts ofBoston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology.
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Boston on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedianl