Query: "-stan" in "Afghanistan" (P.S.)

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:29 PM +0800 11/13/01, Laurence Horn wrote:
>At 8:24 AM -0800 11/13/01, Peter A. McGraw wrote:
>>"Pakistab"?!!
>
>Right.  That trial balloon was quickly punctured for obvious reasons.    ;-)
>Well, Rahmat Ali did say "composed of letters taken from the names
>of", not "composed of the initial letters of".  He never promised us
>an acronym.
>

Or, for that matter, a gulistan.

L