On May 9, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Dave Land wrote:
On May 9, 2005, at 5:40 PM, David Brin wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Don't even think about asking a Galactic about giving someone the finger .
I am reminded of the fact that about 10% of US place names mean the same thing in some local native American dialect.
Minnesota, Mississippi, Wyoming, Delaware... they all mean the same thing, in various tribal tongues.
"It's your FINGER, you paleface fool."
I'm reluctant to believe this story.
Minnesota -- Sioux for "cloudy water".
<http://www.bartleby.com/61/90/M0319000.html>
Mississippi -- Ojibwa, possibly; "big river".
<http://www.bartleby.com/61/35/M0343500.html>
Wyoming -- From the Delaware (!) indians, meaning "rivers and mountains alternating".
<http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0854966.html>
Delaware -- Named after the river, by a baron De la Warr.
<http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0854966.html>
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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