The joke's on you, Bob.
Marianne Mithun
mithun at LINGUISTICS.UCSB.EDU
Sat Aug 24 17:14:58 UTC 2013
Love it Bob!
Marianne
--On Saturday, August 24, 2013 5:10 PM +0000 "Rankin, Robert L."
<rankin at KU.EDU> wrote:
>
>
> Just a footnote to the Saganash saga. A year or so ago I had an
> appointment in Topeka and drove in through the north (seedy) side of
> town. I passed a place called the Sasnak Tavern and thought maybe the
> name was based on the Indian name for British that we have just
> recently been discussing here (even though it was missing a bunch of
> phonemes).
>
>
>
> I managed to convince myself of this amazing discovery to the point that
> I even thought about stopping off for a beer to ask about the history of
> the bars name. Then, driving away and feeling very proud of my
> intellectual prowess in recognizing such an obscure historical fact, I
> happened to glance in the rear view mirror and saw the mirror image of
> the name.
>
>
>
> Oh shit.
>
>
>
> Bob
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