Re: OT: Folk Etymology
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT: Folk Etymology
- From: G* S*
- Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 20:25:23 -0700
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RYFigge@aol.com wrote:
>
> Walter, Laura Pendulum really takes the cake! That is the biggest corruption
> I've heard for modern times!
Astrophysicist George Gamow told of one almost as good.
He took his vacations at a ranch in Montana. One summer the owner bought
a new big red horse and Gamow suggested that it be named for the big red
star in Orion, Betelguese, which he pronounced something like BEHT el
goyze.
The next summer the ranch had a new owner. The horse was still there,
but its name had become Battle Goose.
Gerry, with a single bloom of Starship Enterprise open, delaying the end
of my iris season
PS Isn't etymology the study of insects? ;-)
--
g*@loop.com
Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair
Region 15 Ass't RVP, JT Chair
Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
in warm, winterless Los Angeles
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