Date:  Thu, 3 Mar 1994 10:51:44 -0600

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Bounced Mail



If including a previous posting in something you send to the list, be

sure to edit out all references to ADS-L in the headers.



> From: BITNET list server at UGA (1.7f) <LISTSERV[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu>

> Subject:   ADS-L: error report from ACDCA.ITT.COM

>

>The enclosed mail file, found in the ADS-L reader and shown under the spoolid

>0955 in the console log, has been identified as a possible delivery error

>notice for the following reason: "Sender:", "From:" or "Reply-To:" field

>pointing to the list has been found in mail body.

>

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> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 08:36:15 PST

> From: benson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]acdca.itt.com (Peter Benson)

> Subject: Re: Local pron. of toponyms

>

> Is this equivalent to folk etymologies - such as sparrow grass for asparagus ?

> So if there were a Native American name for a place that had parts that

> looked vaguely English and was re-interpreted in an English way, would this be an example ?

>

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> Date:     Thu, 3 Mar 1994 07:58:32 -0800

> From: David Prager Branner <charmii[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]U.WASHINGTON.EDU>

> Subject:   Re: Local pron. of toponyms

>     In Chinese dialects you often find placenames whose MEANING and

> not only phonology are totally different in dialect from those of the

> characters used to write them in the "standard" (?) language. This is

> more complicated than "Avenue of the Americas" in Manhattan being called

> "Sixth Avenue".

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