That sounds reasonable to me, Joao. Interesting. Thank you!
Kathy
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On May 6, 2011, at 4:27 AM, Joao S. Lopes wrote:
> I picked this from wikipedia, and sounds interesting. What's the meaning of
> Açores? Açor in Portuguese is the name of one species of hawk (usually
> explained from Latin accipiter), but there's no hawk in Azores. An
> alternative explanation is that Azores was a corruption of Italian azorres,
> modern Italian azurra "blue", meaning the Blue Islands.
>
> Joao S. Lopes
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