From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx01.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Brad Moore User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The Owl - My Idea for the Ada mascot References: <08a98d3a-0f72-491c-b024-3e09c0457c03@googlegroups.com> <1Nq9w.440060$_r4.17199@fx25.iad> In-Reply-To: <1Nq9w.440060$_r4.17199@fx25.iad> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.145.219.148 X-Complaints-To: internet.abuse@sjrb.ca X-Trace: 1415994054 68.145.219.148 (Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:40:54 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:40:54 UTC Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:40:55 -0700 X-Received-Bytes: 1545 X-Received-Body-CRC: 731694002 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:23322 Date: 2014-11-14T12:40:55-07:00 List-Id: On 2014-11-14 10:15 AM, Brad Moore wrote: > I wouldn't be > surprised if Ada is a name that people commonly give to their Aardvarks. Apparently there is some truth to this. http://www.africananimalworld.com/abc-book.html Not to mention page 136 of John Barne's book, Ada 2012, where he uses an Aardvark in his example. It is also interesting that Aardvark habitat in the wild apparently includes an area that includes the village "Ada" in Northern Ghana. http://gh.worldmapz.com/2295.htm Though I know there is at least one Aardvark with a different name. Apparently there is one called Ethel, who liked to go Quantity Surveying.