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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Could it possibly be related to
"Mijnheer(n)"?</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>This is just what sprang to mind; an
uneducated guess, as it were.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Erin McKean</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>editor@verbatimmag.com</blockquote>
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<div>I think Erin's suggestion of Dutch may be on the right track, to
judge from this web posting (the only one that google turns up for
"Meerns"). Unfortunately, my Dutch isn't really up to
it, and my dictionary isn't on me at the moment. Anyone
else? Would a San Francisco newspaper in 1913 really have been
in a position to presuppose familiarity with Dutch category or
address labels? Well, this WAS some years ago...</div>
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<div>larry</div>
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<div>http://www.xs4all.nl/~odyssey/vm/persoonl<span
></span>ijkspelweek5.html</div>
<div>Typisch Meerns:<br>
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> <span
></span
> <span
></span
> <span
></span> Heel fanatiek zijn
in de dingen waar je van houdt. Zo<br>
<span
></span
> <span
></span
> <span
></span> komen er iedere
week weer duizenden mensen<br>
<span
></span
> <span
></span
> <span
></span> naar het stadion
om ons aan te moedigen.<br>
<span
></span
> <span
></span
> <span
></span> Dat zijn toch
mooie dingen.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> I have come across
"Meerns" as a term of address in a 1913 sports article but
am unable to determine its exact meaning. It does not seem to
be listed in the dictionaries.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> The word appears in
the newspaper _San Francisco Bulletin_, March 11, 1913, p. 18, cols.
5-6, over the photograph of former baseball player Bill Lange. The
relevant sentence is:</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Geneva" size="+2"
color="#000000">'As Pop Anson would pause to remark, "I knew him
when he was the equal of a bum baseball player they call Tyrus
Raymond Cobb." Yes, Meerns, that was some years
ago.'</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Geneva" size="+2"
color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Geneva" size="+2"
color="#000000"> Would anyone have any
suggestions?</font></blockquote>
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color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Geneva" size="+2"
color="#000000">---Gerald Cohen</font></blockquote>
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