Girdle String --> G-string?

[Mark Mandel]

But above and beyond there's still one source left over,
And that is the source that you never will guess;
The source that no human research can discover--
But THE WORD ITSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.

(Shamelessly parodied from "The Naming Of Cats" by T. S.
Eliot<http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/t__s__eliot/poems/15121>
.)

m a m

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:

> And then maybe there's another etymology, the true one, which nobody's
> mentioned yet ....

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