I started to wonder if you were basking in the glow of satisfaction >from your excellent deduction, and wondered whether "bask" was to "Basque" as "gyp" is to "Gypsy". Any takers? Ken On Feb 4, 2004, at 10:45 AM, Derrill 'Kisc' Guilbert wrote: > Matthew Klahn wrote: > >> On Feb 3, 2004, at 21:00 , David Silberstein wrote: >>> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Paul Echeverri wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 18:29:15 -0800 (PST), Philip Hart >>>> <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: >>>> >>>>> ps - "Echeverri" has a cool linguistic story, right? - maybe >>>>> Basque? >>>> >>>> >>>> Give the man a cigar. >>>> >> My wife's maiden-name is Chavarría (which she kept as a hypenation, >> making her's the longest name I've run across since some Greek names >> like Eleftoloperous: Chavarría-Klahn), and her father is Bolivian. >> BUT, apparently is less common than either Echeverri, Echeverria, >> etc, since she will frequently tell people her name (well, she's a >> Linguistics grad student, so this is probably not a normal sample of >> people) and they tend to say, "Echeverria?". >> -- >> Matthew S. Klahn >> Software Architect, CodeTek Studios, Inc. >> http://www.codetek.com > > I live in Winnemucca NV, which is apparently known occasionally as > "Basque-town" ... all the old money is Basque, I think the original > settlers were Basque, that sort of thing. Instead of being a Mason, to > get ahead in WMCA you have to be Basque ;) > > There are lots of Echeverria's here, no other variations on that name > that I'm aware of, so yeah, I'd say that sans-e is less common ... > generalizing from a sample of one. > > Kisc >