RE: linguistics...off topic (in memory of...)

When my ancestors named the Mountains in the Late 1500's that were later
called the Rockies, they noticed the red hue cast on them by the setting sun
and so they became and still are called the 'Sangre De Cristos' and the
Mountains that I grew up seeing everyday had a pinkish hue and are called
the Sandias (water melons). Too bad Read didn't know that before he died.
Daniel

One example against standards that Read liked to quote was the arbitrary
naming of the Rocky mountains, which had been known in 1804 as the Northern
Andes, and had subsequently been called the Stony, Shining, and even
Enchanted mountains.
John
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Received on Wed Aug 27 16:40:45 2003