Re: naming schemes (was Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 released)
On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 08:58:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 17:24, Colin Watson wrote:
> > You're only partly right on the first count, and I'd say still wrong on
> > the second. :) The word "Greece" existed in various forms in Old English
> > and other earlier Germanic languages, so considerably predates your
> > Founding Fathers; if you want its modern form, I'm pretty sure
> > Shakespeare used the word, and he lived quite a long time before anyone
> > even called New York New Amsterdam, let alone New York.
>
> How did the Founding Fathers get pulled into the discussion?
Last time I checked, they were a handy lower bound for the founding of
most towns in the US ...
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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