SR - Describing Our Region

[Martin, Brian]

	Interestingly enough, I've been reading a book about place
names, and how many of them came to be. What I found particularly
apropos to our situation is that many place names are the indigenous
language for "home" or "our land".  Hmmm....

	Pendaran

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> Sent:	Tuesday, September 15, 1998 3:47 PM
> To:	southern at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject:	Re: SR - Describing Our Region
> 
> When I read Brian's missive, the first word that came to mind was
> "family", a close second was "friends". Of course, Texas was named
> after
> the Native American word "tejas" meaning friendship which is also the
> state motto.
> The Scottish gaelic word for family is teaghlach, friend is caraid,
> home
> is dhachaidh. Of course, in order to pronounce these correctly, it
> helps
> if you need to clear your throat. 
> What about some other language?
> 
> Catriona MacEanruig
> 
> On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:03:42 -0500 "Martin, Brian"
> <bmartin at origin.ea.com> writes:
> >
> >	Greetings All,
> >
> >	On the way to work this morning, I was pondering a few things
> >concerning our region, what it feels like to live here and how I
> might
> >describe it. I then began to wonder how others who live here may also
> >describe the region. I know that our region is large and defies a 
> >single
> >description, such as "hilly", but is there an aspect to our land, or 
> >for
> >that matter for the people who live here, that springs to mind? I'm 
> >just
> >curious what others here might come up with.
> >
> >	With respect to all, 
> >	Pendaran, Bryn Gwlad
> >
> >	
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