It's time to play that Name Game again!

Michael Tiemann tiemann at redhat.com
Sat Aug 19 17:28:15 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 21:48 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On 8/18/06, Ian Chapman <packages at amiga-hardware.com> wrote:
> > Erm, what about "Frontier"? Play on the word Bordeaux because 'Borde'
> > sort of means "border" (I think) and aux means "with".
> 
> I'm fairly certain "Bordeaux" stems from "Bord d'eaux" (literally, the
> edge of water). For that reason, I was going to suggest "Shanghai,"
> since it means more or less the same thing, but we were trying to get
> away from the city theme.

Ellipsis

Bordeaux -> Bord d'eaux -> edge of water -> triple point of water -> ...
(three points)

M





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