<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><META name="Author" content="Novell GroupWise WebAccess"></head><body style='font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; '>Great story -- made my day :-)<br><br>>>> Marianne Mithun <mithun@LINGUISTICS.UCSB.EDU> 08/24/13 12:16 PM >>><br>Love it Bob!<br><br>Marianne<br><br>--On Saturday, August 24, 2013 5:10 PM +0000 "Rankin, Robert L." <br><rankin@KU.EDU> wrote:<br><br>><br>><br>> Just a footnote to the Saganash saga. A year or so ago I had an<br>> appointment in Topeka and drove in through the north (seedy) side of<br>> town. I passed a place called the Sasnak Tavern and thought maybe the<br>> name was based on the Indian name for ?British? that we have just<br>> recently been discussing here (even though it was missing a bunch of<br>> phonemes).<br>><br>><br>><br>> I managed to convince myself of this amazing discovery to the point that<br>> I even thought about stopping off for a beer to ask about the history of<br>> the bar?s name. Then, driving away and feeling very proud of my<br>> intellectual prowess in recognizing such an obscure historical fact, I<br>> happened to glance in the rear view mirror and saw the mirror image of<br>> the name.<br>><br>><br>><br>> Oh shit.<br>><br>><br>><br>> Bob<br></body></html>