An interesting account of origin of "burdash", plus...

[Mike Cleven]

Replies in sci.lang to my request for input on my
http://www.hiyu.net/french.html page came up with an interesting couple
of pages from one contributor; Dave R in particular should have a look
at the second of these two links:

http://www.geocities.com/westhollywood/stonewall/3044/berdache.html

http://www.geocities.com/westhollywood/stonewall/3044/image2.html

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Mike Cleven
http://www.cayoosh.net (Bridge River Lillooet history)
http://www.hiyu.net (Chinook Jargon phrasebook/history)