[Ads-l] sherpa

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I must have been forty before I discovered that "Sherpa" was a tribal, not
> an occupational, designation.
>

You mean to say that it *doesn’t* mean "porter, bearer, guide," or some
such, in Nepalese?!!! :-(

Hmm. Rather, it’s from Tibetan words, _Shar Pa_, that mean "Eastern Folk."

And I’m only weeks away from my _eightieth_ birthday.

"Better late than never," to coin a phrase.

-- 
-Wilson
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