[PW] my traditional New Year's questions

[Phalbe Henriksen]

The other word was "gentilic."

"Toponymists" and "ethnonym" are used in the opening paragraph of the 
Wikipedia article here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonym

Phalbe Henriksen



At 05:27 PM 1/10/2008, you wrote:

>For half a thanks I believe one of the terms was demonym.  The other was
>Ethnosomething - perhaps ethnonym.
>Tim
>
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>Colleagues,
>
>In keeping with a now-ancient tradition (at least five years  old), I
>ask the
>questions that I always ask early each year:
>
>1.  Some years ago, a Congressman's wife, making a campaign speech for
>her
>husband, pleaded with the audience to re-elect him, saying "He doesn't
>know
>how to do anything else!"  Who said this?
>
>2.  During World War II, members of the USAAF sang a song of which the
>refrain goes, "Fly low and slow, said his mother"  Details of the song,
>please.
>Addendum, 2008:  I've gone to several WW2 sites, and the line  in
>question
>seems to have been used in many pilot-written songs, not just  one.  But
>if you
>know of any song likely to have been the original, I'd  much appreciate
>learning
>about it.
>
>3.  Many years ago I read somewhere the dictum, "We learn not from
>experience, but from experiment."  Who wrote this?  (There are many
>sayings that are
>somewhat similar, but I'm looking for the one that explicitly
>downgrades
>"experience" and champions "experiment")
>
>4.  Some writer on the Anglo-American criminal justice system said
>somewhere
>that the trouble with it was that it was designed just to keep the
>peace in
>a sleepy English village.  Who said it, etc.?  Addendum,  2008: I've
>written
>to several of the leading criminologists in the U.S., and all  were kind
>enough
>to respond, but none knew the dictum.
>
>5.  I've read that there is a Spanish proverb that goes, "Take what  you
>want
>-- and pay for it."  Is there really such a proverb? (even John  Dyson
>hasn't
>been able to answer this one, which means it's really tough)
>
>6.  A standard graphic cliche indicates that a person is insane by
>depicting
>him in Napoleonic costume, with right hand tucked into his  tunic.  What
>is
>the origin of this convention?  Does it have anything  to do with the
>report
>that Henry James, when moribund, talked as if he thought  he was
>Napoleon?
>
>7.  Shortly after the dissolution of the USSR, a number of American
>academics took out a full-page ad in the New York Review of Books in
>which they
>lamented that event, and thanked the Russian people "for trying".  Can
>anyone cite
>the issue of NYRB in which that ad appeared, or, even better, fax me  a
>copy
>of the ad?  (Addendum, 2008: I've asked the NYRB itself, and the
>answering
>service at the Library of Congress, but gotten nothing useful.)
>
>    Anyone correctly answering any of these gets a (small) box of  Godiva
>
>chocolates.
>
>                    Mark
>
>P.S.  Here is another question, but this is not one of my tough
>research
>queries, or "stumpers" as we used to call them, and no chocolates are
>offered
>for an answer, just my thanks:  in the last couple of weeks someone
>asked about
>names for people based on where they live or came from, as "New  Yorker"
>is
>the name for people who live in New York, and in the answers two  terms
>were
>offered for names so formed.  I meant to save those terms, but  failed
>-- would
>someone be kind enough to remind me of them?  Since this is  just for
>me,
>please reply to _markhalpern at iname.com_ (mailto:markhalpern at iname.com) .
>
>
>
>
>
>
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