<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi, Dan V -</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Your friends said BBL because <i>every</i> course in the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13.3333px">Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies begins with those letters. But that doesn't answer your question. Imagine this conversation between 2 instructors:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13.3333px">"What are you teaching?"</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13.3333px">"I'm teaching a lot of BBS ..."</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13.3333px">That sounds too much like BS which is a well known acronym for something else.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13.3333px">Therefore, I suspect the L in BiLingual was substituted for the S in Studies.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13.3333px">In Texas, BBL is a well known acronym for "barrels (of oil)". And a lot of BBL has a very nice sound there.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13.3333px">My niece's daughter used to call me Texas. She probably heard her mother refer to a somewhat prominent part of my anatomy and the little girl couldn't pronounce the KH-sound in Yiddish tuchis. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13.3333px">Texas actually is the tuchis of Turtle Island. It's retracted head is at Baffin Bay, right foreleg at Labrador / Nova Scotia, right hind leg at Florida, tail at Mexico, left hindleg at Baja California and left foreleg at Alaska. For details, download this file from my Dropbox:  </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/rikodm1yl8mfl6t/Turtle_Island.doc?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/rikodm1yl8mfl6t/Turtle_Island.doc?dl=0</a></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13.3333px">Perhaps someone on this list</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> can explain why there is such a pervasive parallel between Spanish enye (n-tilde) and RG, RK and terminal RSH in other (mostly Germanic) anguages? For a list of examples, download this file: </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7zxd4epasjezmq8/Spanish_n-tilde_enye.docx?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/7zxd4epasjezmq8/Spanish_n-tilde_enye.docx?dl=0</a> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best regards & stay well,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Izzy</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Israel A. Cohen</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></div></div>