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by mrkmarron 2613 days ago
It is a Spanish word used in the SouthWest US for forest along a river. No particular reason behind the name, just a unique and easily searchable choice.
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Oh okay. I thought it might have something to do with Basque:

"Basque is a language spoken in the Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of northern Spain and southwestern France. Linguistically, Basque is unrelated to the other languages of Europe and is a language isolate to any other known living language."

I didn't know about the forest meaning at all. (Maybe a subconscious influence, if you've ever heard any reference to Basque.)

I'll spell it out (for the downvoter): "is a language isolate to any other known living language" as well as being "a language". It has a very special status between France and Spain. I think anyone who knows about Basque would think of Basque when reading about a computer language named Bosque.
Not really: Bosque, Bosco, Bois, Bos, all mean "wood", "forest" in, respectively, Spanish and Portuguese, Italian, French, Dutch. So it's a pretty familiar word to most Europeans.
OK, thanks.
Not if you speak Spanish. "Un bosque," a forest, isn't related to Euskera, as the Basque language in known in Spanish. That part of Spain is called Euskadi or PaĆ­s Vasco, neither of which looks like bosque in Spanish nor Basque in English.