Shabon/sabon - soap or debts? Waking up confused.....

[Scott E. Tyler]

Interesting subject.
saponification the chemical process of making soap was invented by the
pre-renassaince Arabs probably in Spain,
it was called SABOONIFICATION because it was name after the guy who invented
it, Abdullah Booni.
Don't know how this relates to j'bonne.  But we would smell and feel much
different today if not for this man.
Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Cleven [SMTP:ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 02, 2000 10:29 AM
> To:	CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject:	Shabon/sabon - soap or debts?  Waking up confused.....
>
> Upon waking up this morning I remembered some of the substance of the
> debate a while back concerning sabon/shabon and whether or not it had
> anything to do with j'abonne etc.  Am I wrong in thinking that it's
> 'soap' and did we ever get anywhere with that j'abonne thing?
>
> Mike