PN Oak

[Edwin Bryant]

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Koenraad Elst wrote:

> Oak is especially notorious for his fantastic etymologies: Vatican
> being Veda-Vatika, Rome as Ram-nagar, Dutch being the language of the
> Daityas, etc.

My favourite 'Oakism' is his etymology for 'England' It was thus named
because the primordial Aryan settlers fanning out across Europe from an
Indian homeland espied the fair isle (from which vantage point he does not
state) and called it 'Angulisthan' because it was finger- (anguli) shaped!
EB.