Andrew , this is April the 2nd ...
Anthony
PS
On the French news, yesterday, they spoke about having to reduce the
height of the wind turbine (wind mills) as their effect was slowing
down the earth's rotation by a degree or so, and making clocks run
fast ....
Le 2 avr. 09 à 14:36, Andrew Gibbs a écrit :
Yet another theory - this one involving Welsh Troubadours (eh?) -
from Babolat - a French company that still makes gut-strung tennis
racquets:
'...in the Middle Ages Welsh Troubadours played an instrument that
sounded like a cat meowing. The English called this instrument a cat
and its string was called cat gut. When natural gut strings made
their way into tennis racquets the 'cat gut' name stuck. So even
though natural gut tennis string is at times referred to as catgut,
cats never were a source for racquet strings.'
Andrew
On 2 Apr 2009, at 13:24, Anthony Hind wrote:
Or that French people knowing the English pronunciation "cat-gut",
jokingly played on this changing "Kaet" to "chat" to mock the sound
often produced by bad musicians.
Regards
Anthony
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