On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Jerry Friedman wrote: > I like it, but I don't believe it. Google has no relevant hits for > "Pablo Saves", "Roberto Saves", "Pancho Saves", or "Paco Saves". > (There are too many false positives to check "Juan Saves" [an > incident from Byron] or "Pedro Saves" [Christmas].) So I doubt very > much that "Saves" is a Spanish surname. Not in my experience, no, it isn't. It's an amusing anecdote, however, and all the more charming for being fictional, unlike the poor bugger who got in trouble for correctly using 'niggardly' in a sentence. pe