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From: evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Naming streets
Message-ID: <467@petfe.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 08:43:53 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 08:43:53 1985
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In <950@bunker.UUCP> Jim Crandell writes:
> One of my favorite street names (found in North Austin) is
> ``Cavileer''.  I haven't yet gotten quite curious enough to
> research its origin (it's probably something infuriatingly
> prosaic like an accidental misspelling of ``cavilier'', or
> maybe ``caviller''), but I can't help wondering.
> -- 
>    Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
>              {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell

I often wonder about the derivation of words like cavilier or maybe caviller.
Perhaps the derivation is something infuriatingly prosaic like an accidental
misspelling of 'cavalier' or something.  But I can't help wondering.

--Evan Marcus
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