On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, circadian rhyme wrote: #David Silberstein writes: # I bring this up because I suddenly realized that "Newhouse" might well # translate to someting like "casa nuova" => "Casanova". # #At this point, i must note that my surname, Echeverri, comes from the #Basque Etxeberri, "etxe", house, and "berri", new. But i was never #very good with the ladies. Oh, delightful! Believe it or not, I was wondering just yesterday what that name meant; I knew it was Basque. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel