Quoting Clinton

bpj at netg.se bpj at netg.se
Mon Jun 16 09:28:01 UTC 1997


At 23:57 15.6.1997, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
>Namaste! At 11:44 PM 6/15/97 BST, Anshuman Pandey wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, S Krishna wrote:
>> [...]
>>Boy, you really opened up a can of worms here! Correct me if I am wrong,
>>but isn't "iyer" indeed a corruption of the word "arya"? And isn't the
>>root in the name Ireland a cognate of "arya", not to mention the root in
>>Iran as well. So, in a round-about way, Ireland really would be a
>>corruption of "Iyer"land, wouldn't it?
>>Regards,
>>Anshuman Pandey
>
>Well, at least there is no dispute that "Canada" is
>a nothing but a Eurocentric bastardization of "Kannada". :)

Yes, but not of the Indian "Kannada", but of an Indian one! ;) <biting my
tongue, and disappearing around the nearest bend of imagination...>








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