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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (showard)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Naming streets
Message-ID: <845@udenva.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 18:31:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: udenva.845
Posted: Fri Sep 13 18:31:28 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 05:20:45 EDT
References: <441@petfe.UUCP> <950@bunker.UUCP>, <2781@ut-sally.UUCP> <467@petfe.UUCP>
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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
> -- 
> {ucbvax|decvax}!vax135!petsd!petfe!evan
>
   Cavalier?  Isn't that some kind of weird fish eggs or something?

--Mr. Blore, the DJ who would not die
--.udenva!showard


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