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From: kaz@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku)
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Subject: Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
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"David Wright" <davidw@uq.net.au> wrote in message news:<avopcn$q6g$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>...
> "Wes Groleau" <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in
> message
> news:L4CT9.2393$c6.2552@bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com..
> .
> :
> : >>Ada is such a wimpy name.
> : >>Old eighteenth century woman....
> : >
> : > 1815 is in the 19th century...
> :
> : And she never got a chance to be old.
> :
> 
> Yes, but you've got to admit that ADA 'sounds' old;
> either that or conjures up some milk producing barnyard
> animal. Why not MADONNA or VANESSA (Amarosi*) ;-)  The
> only reason I ever looked at Euphoria was because of
> it's name.

Note that the name Vanessa was invented by Jonathan Swift, who lived
from 1667 to 1745.