Trivia.

[R. Rankin]

AaaaHA!  A universal phonological naturalness constraint in optimology!!

> > the woman who claimed to have been Sacagawea was named
> > Puhinaivi (a/k/a "Bowie Knife")
>
> Funny--I come from a land of Finnish immigrants, and "Puhinaivi" is
> precisely the way "Bowie knife" would be written in "Finglish." Finnish
> has no [b] or [f], and the only consonants that can end a word are, I
> think, [n], [s], and [t], so a vowel is often added to loan-words ending
> in a consonant.