Alexey writes: ...I forgot
to mention that d'Onsky, the name of a character in ADA, Demon
Veen's rival, comes from
Don, the river flowing from the Tula province in central
Russia to the sea of Azov. Cf. Onegin's donskoy zherebets, a Don stallion, in
Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (Chapter Two, V, 4).
JM: My
booklet about exotic words explains that the word "rival" is derived from
"river" (someone whose land is separated from ours by a river!)
Anyway, are there recent news about OUR Don
B.Johnson to calm down worries about Santa Barbara's
weather-related problems?
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PS: There are frequent spelling mistakes in my
regular postings ( such as 'geografy' ) or misplaced "s". I hope you'll bear
with me... Correcting them
by additional postings would make matters
even worse!